Balancing Act: With Alex Trebek's announcement comes unease over the words 'fight' and 'win' applied to cancer
When Alex Trebek announced Wednesday, March 6, that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, he asked his viewers, along with his family and friends, to help him survive the disease.
"I'm going to fight this," he said. "Keep the faith, and we'll win. We'll get it done."
It's the sort of language we frequently hear used around cancer - fight, battle, defeat, win, lose - and it doesn't sit well with some families whose lives have been forever changed by the disease.
Chicagoan Sheila Quirke's 4-year-old daughter, Donna, died from cancer. So did Quirke's mom
