Alex Trebek Says a Chemo Drug Was “Killing” Him As He Gives Cancer Update
, and making sure their kidney and liver function is okay on the treatment, he says. “If it’s not safe to proceed with the treatment, we may change it,” Dr. Abushahin says. In general, doctors will “stop it before it becomes debilitating,” he adds.
In some cases, “it may be that the drugs are appropriate but the individual is tolerating the treatment poorly,” Dr. Jacoub says. Whether someone will do well on a medication can be “unpredicatable” and “some people experience a lot of side effects, while others have no side effects.” “Some days are better than others,” Trebek admitted. “My resistance is lower than most of you, of course, because of the treatments I’ve been having, the chemotherapy and, as you can tell, the cold that seems to be going around. But this is the second time I’ve had it in the past month,” he said, his voice slightly hoarse.
, Trebek has also mentioned being in great pain, feeling depressed, and experiencing hair loss during treatment.performance. “I seemed a little slower in the ad-lib portions. I could still deliver the clues at a rapid pace ... but I feel that I was not having one of my best weeks. Some weeks are good, some weeks are bad, but it comes with the territory,” he said.
Still, he was able to encourage a few laughs on the panel. When he was asked what he’ll do when he retires one day, he responded with this joke: “Drink.”
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