Alex Trebek looks frail as he’s seen taking out the trash amid battle with stage-4 pancreatic cancer

  • 4 years ago
JEOPARDY! host Alex Trebek was almost unrecognizable on Wednesday when he was spotted outside his home amid his battle with pancreatic cancer on Wednesday. The 79-year-old game show host looked frail and had lost his hair, as he took out trash to the curb of his Los Angeles home. He kept comfortable in a faded blue Jeopardy! shirt, jeans and sneakers, as he undertook the chore. He made sure not to lose his eyeglasses as he had them hanging from a string around his neck. Trebek's hair was thinner than when he was last seen - presumably as an effect of his chemotherapy treatments. The father-of-two - who announced he had been diagnosed with deadly stage 4 pancreatic cancer in March last year - gave fans an update on his health as he passed the one-year survival mark. Only 18% of patients diagnosed with the killer disease get past the milestone – and Trebek admitted that the suffering caused by chemotherapy had made him consider giving up. He said in a video posted on social media i ...

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