Alex Trebek’s diagnosis is pancreatic cancer. Here’s a list of celebrities who died of pancreatic cancer.
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With his diagnosis, Alex Trebek joins the list of celebrities with pancreatic cancer.
Alex Trebek, the beloved host of the game show Jeopardy!, made the sad announcement on March 6,2019 that he has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. On YouTube, he insisted that he was “going to fight this,” despite the dim prognosis for the disease at that stage.
Other famous celebrities have lost their lives to pancreatic cancer in recent years. Some have survived after their diagnosis for some time, however.
Alex Trebek referenced his family, saying, “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.”
What is the survival rate for that diagnosis? Unfortunately, as other celebrities have experienced, the odds aren’t good. The median survival rate is only 3-6 months, although some people defy those odds, of course.
Here’s are some of the celebrities who have been diagnoses with pancreatic cancer:
American actor Michael Landon.
Beloved House on the Prairie dad Michael Landon died from pancreatic cancer. “I think you have to have a sense of humor about everything,” Landon told reporters when he revealed his diagnosis, according to Cancer Today .
“I don’t find this particularly funny, but if you’re going to try to go on, if you’re going to try to beat something, you’re not going to do it standing in the corner.
