The Jeopardy! host and the civil rights icon were born five months apart in 1940 and they both received their stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2019. “We’re starting a new year, and let’s see if we can’t both complete the year as pancreatic cancer survivors,” Trebek said when asked about Lewis, noting that they are both 79 years old.
TOPICS: Alex Trebek, John Lewis