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Alex Trebek has Pancreatic Cancer setback

Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:52 pm
Posted by cardswinagain
Member since Jun 2013
13482 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:52 pm
He will be needing more Chemo he says. Things sounded promising for a while. Hope he can recover

Alex Trebek to undergo more Chemo
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76148 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:54 pm to
May I have “I hope he’ll be OK” for $200?
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56772 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:55 pm to
Pancreatic cancer is no joke. I'm extremely surprised he has made it this long.
Posted by Aubie Spr96
lolwut?
Member since Dec 2009
44826 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:56 pm to
We were told when my mother-in-law had it that 90% of all diagnoses of this disease die within a year.
Posted by way_south
Member since Jul 2017
966 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:57 pm to
I had a friend die of pancreatic cancer. I was having a beer with him in October and he was dead in January.
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
56772 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 3:58 pm to
quote:

We were told when my mother-in-law had it that 90% of all diagnoses of this disease die within a year.



I had an aunt that already had leukemia, and was diagnosed with pancreatic (I don't know what stage). She died in less than three weeks.
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:10 pm to
Not good. Hate this.
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
8099 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:11 pm to
I've had two friends die from this b*tch. Both died within 2 months of diagnosis. What is Ginsberg getting to beat this?
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
77214 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:13 pm to
Pancreatic cancer lays waste to people quickly
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132620 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:13 pm to
quote:

He will be needing more Chemo he says. Things sounded promising for a while. Hope he can recover


There is no recovering from stage 4 panc cancer with liver mets
Posted by Tigerbiscuits
Mid-City
Member since Nov 2011
1122 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:17 pm to
My dad was diagnosed in February and died in May of 2007. He was a 37 and had been sober for 16 years. Weighed 200 lbs at diagnosis, died at 80 lbs. frick.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
89821 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:19 pm to
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Pancreatic cancer is no joke.


Until the past 5-10 years, it was pretty much an automatic death sentence.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38229 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:24 pm to
his recovery sounded too good to be true. Hope I'm wrong and he is around for a long time reading answers to questions like he knew them all along.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20377 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:27 pm to
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Pancreatic cancer is no joke. I'm extremely surprised he has made it this long.


Me too. I'm sure it helps that he can afford the best of the best care available for people with such a diagnosis.

I'm just as sure if it was the "Average Joe" that was diagnosed with it when he was, they'd likely be long gone by now.

Hey, the guy is 79 years old and has had a great life but it still sucks to go out like that.
This post was edited on 9/17/19 at 4:28 pm
Posted by hobotiger
Asbury Park, NJ
Member since Nov 2007
5435 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:34 pm to
A friend of mine was diagnosed with it almost three years ago and he is still going.
He went to his doctor about a year and half ago and he asked the doctor what next and the doctor told him he wasn't sure because none of his patients had lived that long after being diagnosed
Posted by UK34
Member since May 2016
211 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:34 pm to
My father was diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer last March and he's currently doing very well.

He did however go through a few months of hell last summer with chemo so it surprised me seeing Trebek doing so well with very little down time.
Posted by Thracken13
Aft Cargo Hold of Serenity
Member since Feb 2010
19007 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:39 pm to
not the same thing, but a good friend of about 25 years was diagnosed with throat cancer about a month ago, and his followup 3 days ago gave him about 3 weeks to live.

frick Cancer man - such an unfair disease.
Posted by Reservoir dawg
Member since Oct 2013
15168 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:53 pm to
My grandfather lived with it for about a year and a half.
Posted by Reservoir dawg
Member since Oct 2013
15168 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 4:55 pm to
quote:

not the same thing, but a good friend of about 25 years was diagnosed with throat cancer about a month ago, and his followup 3 days ago gave him about 3 weeks to live.

frick Cancer man - such an unfair disease.


Terrible! Throat cancer seems to be really common these days.
Posted by danilo
Member since Nov 2008
26321 posts
Posted on 9/17/19 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

Terrible! Throat cancer seems to be really common these days.

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