host is addressing the revelation made in his new memoir about his plans to stop treatment.
Earlier:Alex Trebek has come to a decision about his battle withstage 4 pancreatic cancer.
If it doesn’t work I’ll probably stop treatment."
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Quality of life was an important consideration."
Trebek, who is undergoing an experimental immunotherapy treatment, is currently seeing good results, however.
“The doctors have said they have never seen a chart like mine because there are peaks.
I said, What do you mean you dont see that often?
What do you usually see?
They usually see it going up.
Im a bit of an anomaly.”
He also spoke further about his decision to stop treatment should his cancer not respond to the current program.
And I said, ‘I feel like I want to die.’
It was that bad," Trebek said.
It just has to do with the fact that I feel like I’m a terrible burden to her.
And that bothers me tremendously."
“She says, ‘You’re not a burden,'” he continued.
“She’s a saint…. you’re free to watch the full interview above.
