“Revered ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek provided an update on his stage four pancreatic cancer this week, prompting Fox News medical contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier to reveal that technological advances in cancer treatment have allowed the diagnoses to be less threatening than they once were.

“Trebek gave a “mind-boggling” update on Wednesday that he was responding well to chemotherapy, even nearing remission and that some of his tumors had shrunk by as much as 50 percent.

“Dr. Saphier, who is also a radiologist, told “Fox & Friends” that in modern medical times, cancer is not the “death sentence” it was once perceived as.”

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