Alex Trebek says he’s in ‘near remission’ with his cancer
CNNCNN — Alex Trebek has shared a hopeful health update. The “Jeopardy!” host – who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer – told People magazine he’s responding well to treatment. “It’s kind of mind-boggling,” Trebek said in the magazine’s new cover story. “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.” The survival rate for those with Trebek’s kind of cancer is 9% and he said news that he may be beating the odds left him emotional. He recently talked about the difficulty of living with his disease with “CBS Sunday Morning.” Alex Trebek opens up about cancer battle Trebek said that early on in his treatment he suffered from excruciating pain both on and off camera while working on “Jeopardy!” “I was on the floor writhing in pain.