Alex Trebek Discloses Cancer Set Back

Alex Trebek

Roughly a week after he triumphantly returned to "Jeopardy!," Alex Trebek revealed he's undergoing another round of chemotherapy to treat his pancreatic cancer, reports Fox News.

Trebek, 79, said in an interview published Tuesday his doctors think more chemotherapy is warranted after his "numbers went sky high" and he lost 12 pounds in just a week.

“I was doing so well," the beloved host told ABC News. "My numbers went down to the equivalent of a normal human being who does not have pancreatic cancer. So we were all very optimistic. And they said, 'Good, we're gonna stop chemo, we'll start you on immunotherapy.'"

But soon after, his doctors decided Trebek needed to undergo more chemotherapy — "and that's what I'm doing," he said.


Trebek revealed in March he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and he underwent treatment before returning to the famed game show.