TUESDAY, Sept. 17, 2019 (HealthDay News) — “Jeopardy!” horde Alex Trebek is streamer behind for another turn of chemotherapy after losing a vast volume of weight and carrying his numbers arise sharply, he told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday.

The news is a reversal for a dear diversion uncover host, who’s been battling theatre 4 pancreatic cancer this year.

In late August, Trebek seemed to be doing awfully good after a prolonged turn of chemotherapy, and he returned to taping a 35th deteriorate of “Jeopardy!”.

But a change in his condition now means that Trebek, who incited 79 in July, is headed behind for some-more chemotherapy.

“I was doing so well. And my numbers went down to a homogeneous of a normal tellurian being who does not have pancreatic cancer,” Trebek told “GMA.” “So, we were all really optimistic. And they said, ‘Good, we’re gonna stop chemo, we’ll start we on immunotherapy.'”

However, some-more recently, “”I mislaid about 12 pounds in a week,” Trebek said, “and my numbers went sky high, most aloft than they were when we was initial diagnosed. So, a doctors have motionless that we have to bear chemo again and that’s what I’m doing.”

His tour with cancer hasn’t always been easy, he added. Physicially, Trebek pronounced he has infrequently been in “excruciating pain,” and mostly suffers from fatigue. Mentally, he admits to infrequently feeling a “surge of sadness” and “depression.”

“When it happened early on we was down on myself,” he said. “I didn’t comprehend how erroneous any of us is in his or her possess approach … we speak to a assembly infrequently and we get teary-eyed for no reason. we don’t even worry to explain it anymore, we only knowledge it. we know it’s a partial of who we am and we only keep going.”

Trebek initial announced his diagnosis of theatre 4 pancreatic cancer in March.

Two months later, he and his doctors announced that he seemed to be winning his conflict opposite a disease. He responded impossibly good to treatments and was in “near remission,” his doctors pronounced in May.

“It’s kind of mind-boggling,” Trebek told People during a time. Even yet a altogether presence rate for pancreatic cancer is only 9 percent, Trebek responded good to chemotherapy.

“The doctors pronounced they hadn’t seen this kind of certain outcome in their memory — some of a tumors have already shrunk by some-more than 50 percent,” he told a magazine.

But nothing of this means a dear diversion uncover horde is certain to kick a disease. For now, Trebek credits a regard and support of fans with his inroads opposite a cancer.

“I’ve got a integrate million people out there who have voiced their good thoughts, their certain appetite destined towards me and their prayers,” he told People in May. “I told a doctors, this has to be some-more than only a chemo, and they concluded it could really good be an critical partial of this.”

Because it is so mostly symptomless until it reaches an modernized stage, pancreatic cancer has a high deadliness rate. According to a American Cancer Society, about 57,000 Americans will be diagnosed with a illness in 2019, and a illness is approaching to explain scarcely 46,000 lives.

As well, pancreatic tumors are quite assertive “due to a mutational form that creates it resistant to therapies that work improved for other growth types,” explained Dr. Angela Alistar. She leads gastrointestinal medical oncology during Morristown Medical Center, in Morristown, N.J.

Trebek is philosophical about his chances, and pronounced genocide doesn’t dismay him.

“I comprehend that there is an finish in steer for me, only as there is for everybody else,” he told “GMA.”

“One line that we have used with a staff in new weeks and months is that when we do pass on, one thing they will not contend during my wake is, ‘Oh, he was taken from us too soon.'” Trebek said. “Hey guys. I’m 79 years old. I’ve had one ruin of a good life. And I’ve enjoyed it — a suspicion of flitting on doesn’t dismay me, it doesn’t. Other things do, a outcome it will have on my desired ones … it creates me sad. But a suspicion of myself relocating on, hey folks, it comes with a territory.”

And he pronounced he has no skeleton right now to quit hosting “Jeopardy!.”

“As prolonged as we can travel out and hail a assembly and a contestants and run a game, I’m happy,” he said.

Born in 1940 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, Trebek primarily was a TV publisher before hosting a Canadian ask show, “Reach for a Top.” That led to being hired to horde U.S. diversion shows such as NBC’s “The Wizard of Odds” in 1973 and “The $128,000 Question,” before relocating to “Jeopardy!” a decade later.

He’s been a orator for charities such as World Vision and Smile Train, and has entertained infantry on countless USO tours.

Trebek married twice — to Elaine Callei in 1974 (the matrimony lasted 7 years) and afterwards to Jean Currivan in 1990, with whom he had dual children, Emily and Matthew.