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Peter Jennings ABC Anchor Has Lung Cancer
« on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 6:07pm »

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Jennings to Keep Working Despite Cancer

Peter Jennings poses on the set of ABC's "World ...
NEW YORK - Peter Jennings, who revealed he has lung cancer Tuesday, plans to continue on "World News Tonight" as much as he can after beginning chemotherapy next week.

Jennings, ABC's chief anchorman since 1983, planned to be at his desk Tuesday - a day after getting his diagnosis.

A former smoker who quit several years ago, the 66-year-old anchor was too ill to work Saturday during the network's special report on Pope John Paul II's death. He hasn't been feeling well the past few months, and didn't travel under doctor's orders after December's tsunami because of what was described then as an upper respiratory infection. He did go to Iraq in January for the elections.

"There will be good days and bad, which means some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky," Jennings told ABC News employees in an e-mail. "Almost 10 million Americans are living with cancer. I am sure I will learn from them how to cope with the facts of life that none of us anticipated."

Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer in the United States, and roughly four out of five people diagnosed with the disease die within five years, said Dr. Cliff Connery, chief of thoracic surgery at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.

Doctors said most lung cancer patients can continue to work throughout treatment, but need flexibility to take it easy on days they are not feeling well.

With his very visible position on television each night, Jennings could be an inspiration for many Americans going through a similar fight, said Dr. David Johnson, chief of oncology and hematology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

"I think it sets the right example," Johnson said. "I think it says you shouldn't stop your life if you have cancer. It may take your life, but you shouldn't let it control your life."

There are effective ways to treat lung cancer, but its mortality rate is so high because so many patients aren't diagnosed until their disease is in an advanced stage, Connery said.

Charles Gibson, Elizabeth Vargas and others will substitute for Jennings from time to time, said ABC News President David Westin. Gibson is in Rome for coverage of the pope's funeral, an assignment that Jennings, a former Rome and London correspondent for ABC News, normally would have taken.

"He's already bringing to this new challenge the courage and strength we've seen so often in his reporting from the field and in anchoring ABC News," Westin told ABC staffers. "I know that all of us will give him every bit of support that he needs and asks for."

Jennings is the last of the anchor troika that dominated broadcast network news divisions over the last two decades. NBC's Tom Brokaw stepped down last year and CBS' Dan Rather left last month.

"Peter is an old friend," Brokaw said Tuesday. "I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage."

While still in his 20s, Jennings anchored ABC's evening news for two years in the 1960s. He returned to the desk in 1978 when third-place ABC tried a multi-anchor format, which was abandoned in 1983 when Frank Reynolds died from cancer. Jennings has been ABC's sole evening anchor ever since.

A Canadian who proudly became a U.S. citizen in 2003, the urbane Jennings dominated the ratings from the late 1980s to the mid-'90s, when Brokaw surpassed him.

"Jennings has served American broadcast news with a graceful internationalist intelligence," said Rich Hanley, director of graduate programs at Quinnipiac University's school of communications. "His manner of news delivery stood in contrast to but not in opposition of the gentle Midwestern aesthetic expressed by Tom Brokaw and the eccentricity of Dan Rather."

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Re: Peter Jennings ABC Anchor Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #1 on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 8:29pm »

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I hope he can beat the odds of lung cancer. They aren't good, if you can believe what they said on the news tonight....that 95% don't beat it.

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that's can't be right pocket. i thought lung cancer was one of the most treatable? Maybe if its not caught in time?

Man that number is staggering if it's right

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Re: Peter Jennings ABC Anchor Has Lung Cancer
« Reply #3 on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 8:59pm »

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My understanding is that lung cancer has a VERY high mortality rate. I believe prstate cancer is the most treatable because it is the slowest growing.

I hope he makes it. I have always liked him.

Prayers to you and your family :angel:

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« Reply #4 on: Apr 5^th, 2005, 9:32pm »

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I don't know, Angelofmercy.....that's the figure they gave. I can tell you my SIL died from lung cancer. Her doctors encouraged her to fight it, and she did, to no avail. From diagnosis to death was 18 months.

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Wow, I never knew that. I assumed it was treatable. I know pancreatic cancer is one of the worse, followed by colon cancer. I guess lung is up there too Sad

To everyone out there: Let this be a lesson to you! DON'T SMOKE!! It's really not worth it!

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« Reply #6 on: Apr 6^th, 2005, 9:26am »

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FYI: I googled it. I was shocked!! Lung cancer is the leading cause of death by cancer in the US!

I didn't see any statistics about the percentage of people that get it, die from it, but from these numbers 95% mortality seems pretty believable.

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« Reply #7 on: Apr 6^th, 2005, 10:17am »

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And my husband has the attitude, it won't happen to me! I can't convince him to quit smoking for good. We both quit many years ago, then started again. (stupid) Then I quit again 20 years ago, and was determined never to smoke again.

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