How Alex Trebek Is Fighting Back Against Pancreatic Cancer
For 35 years, Alex Trebek has been the purveyor of obscure facts from the archeologist who opened King Tut's tomb in 1922 (Who is Howard Carter?) to the device Alexander Graham Bell tested out on Civil War vets still riddled with bullets (What is a metal detector?).
But recently the longtime Jeopardy! host has been educating his followers on something infinitely more important and far more personal.
"Just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer," he shared in a March video message that has since been viewed by upwards of five million people.
"Now normally the prognosis for this is not very...
