Alex Trebekhas completedhis chemotherapy treatmentsand is “on the mend” fromstage 4 pancreatic cancer, the longtimeJeopardy!host announced in a video on Thursday.
Just under seven months after Trebek, 79, first announced that he had started cancer treatments, he said that he is back at work anddoing better.
“I’ve gone through a lot of chemotherapy, and thankfully that is now over,” he said. “I’m on the mend and that’s all I can hope for right now.”
Trebek said from the outset that heexpects to survive his cancer.
“Now, normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging,” he said in March. “But I’m going to keep working, and with the love and support of my family and friends — and with the help of your prayers, also — I plan to beat the low-survival-rate statistics for this disease.”
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And in May,Trebek exclusively told PEOPLEthat hisprognosis was looking up, and he was in “near remission,” according to his doctors.
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Trebek said Thursday that he’s happy to be back on theJeopardy!set and filming the show’s 36th season.
“It’s another day at the office for me, and an exciting day because so many great things have been happening,” he said. “We hadJeopardy Jameslast season, and got tremendous publicity for himself and for the show. We have a new champion, in Jason, this year. Typical energizer bunny kind of type.”
In the video, Trebek looks like an energizer bunny himself—the cameras capture him chatting with the audience (joking that Betty White should play him in an autobiographical film), enjoying his 79th birthday and doing push-ups before going on stage.
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“We have some exciting things coming up and I can’t wait to share them with you,” he said. “Let me tell you, it’s going to be a good year.”
source: people.com
