Beloved game-show host Alex Trebek announced he's been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in a YouTube video on Wednesday that had a positive tone despite the grim prognosis. "Just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer," Trebek said in the message posted on the Jeopardy YouTube channel. But, I'm going to fight this and I'm going to keep working. Several months after the surgery, he appeared in a video on the show's Facebook page, wearing a Jeopardy baseball cap. Sharing his cancer diagnosis was "in keeping with my longtime policy of being open and transparent with our Jeopardy fan base," Trebek said.

Source: CBC News March 06, 2019 22:17 UTC