Alex Trebek Vows To Fight On!

Jeopardy! All Stars champion Brad Rutter with his team Larissa Kelly and David Madden. They celebrate their victory with Alex Trebek. After the victory, the game show host announced he had cancer.

The famed Jeopardy host announced he has Stage IV pancreatic cancer.

Alex Trebek continues hosting duties on the popular quiz show. Fresh after the Jeopardy All Star's Tourament, the game show host announced that he had the cancer.

Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Trebeck is the son of George Edward Trebek, a chef who married a Quebec woman named Lucille Lagace. Trebeck was raised in a bilingual French-English household.

He hosted many game shows and talk shows during his time, but he is best remembered as being the famed host of the long running game show Jeopardy.

Trebek recorded the message on YouTube saying that, "Now, just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer."

"Now normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I'm going to fight this, and I'm going to keep working."

Trebek added, "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."

Alex Trebek with the show's most favorable contestants. Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, Colby Burnett, Austin Rogers, Buzzy Cohen and Julia Colins were called Jeopardy!'s best. The  Jeopardy! All-Stars also had Seth Wilson, Larissa Kelly, Monica Thieu, Matt Jackson, Jennifer Giles, Ben Ingram, Roger Craig, David Madden, Leonard Cooper, Alex Jacob, Pam Mueller and Alan Lin.

"Truth told, I have too! Because under the terms of my contract, I have to host Jeopardy for three more years. So help me. Keep the faith and we'll win. We'll get it done. Thank you."

Sony Pictures Television owns Jeopardy and CBS Television distributes the show to local markets.

Trebek hosted the show for 35 seasons. He will immediately begin chemotherapy treatment and also have possible guest hosts when he's not taping.

The show is watched by 24 million people. I am one of those faithful Jeopardy watchers.

In December 2017, Trebek had underwent brain surgery after he was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Medical Center after a nasty fall where he hit his head.

He is married to Jean Currivan and has two children, Matthew, 29 and Emily, 27.