Longtime Jeopardy host Alex Trebek has finished chemotherapy for stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is returning to host the show's 36th season.
In video footage that showed Trebek taping a new"Jeopardy!" episode, he said,"I've gone through a lot of chemotherapy and thankfully that is now over,""I'm on the mend and that's all I can hope for right now," he said. The first episode of the 36th season of"Jeopardy!" will air on Sept. 9in March.
"The doctors said they hadn't seen this kind of positive result in their memory -- some of the tumors have already shrunk by more than 50 percent," he told the magazine. That hurdle behind him, footage of the new show's taping showed Trebek sharing banter with the studio audience. When one audience member asked who might play him in a biopic, Trebek shot back,"Betty White," the 97-year-old star ofTrebek credits the warmth and support of fans with his inroads against the"I've got a couple million people out there who have expressed their good thoughts, their positive energy directed towards me and their prayers," he toldin May.
As well, pancreatic tumors are particularly aggressive"due to a mutational profile that makes it resistant to therapies that work better for other tumor types," explained Dr. Angela Alistar. She directs gastrointestinal medical oncology at Morristown Medical Center, in Morristown, N.J.
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