Tom Brokaw Reveals His Cancer Is in Remission
Published at(NEW YORK) — Tom Brokaw told NBC News staffers Sunday that his cancer is in remission.
“A year ago my future was more uncertain than I cared to acknowledge but now I face the New Year with very encouraging news,” the 74-year-old NBC News veteran said in a note to NBC News staff.
Brokaw, who anchored NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004, revealed in February that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow. He said he will soon begin a drug regimen to keep the cancer in remission.
He also wrote about how during the previous weekend he was a presidential delegate to the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and that it reminded him of “how fortunate we all are.”
“I flew home reflecting again on how lucky we are that generation gave us the lives we have today — how my last year was a challenge but I was meeting it in world class hospitals with brilliant physicians, not in a foxhole in the Ardennes,” he wrote.
He signed the note, “Happy New Year all. T Bone.”
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