What Is Multiple Myeloma? Veteran NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw
Discloses He Has Uncommon Cancer
By Roxanne Palmer
on February 12 2014 12:27 PM
Former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom
Brokaw recently broke the news that he has multiple myeloma, a type of
cancer affecting a particular kind of cell in the bone marrow.
Brokaw, 74, got his start at NBC
News in 1966 and went on to anchor the network’s flagship news program from
1982 to 2004. He says he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma this past August,
and that his doctors at the Mayo Clinic
are encouraged by his progress under treatment.
"With the exceptional support
of my family, medical team and friends, I am very optimistic about the future
and look forward to continuing my life, my work and adventures still to
come," Brokaw said in a personal statement released by the network.
"I remain the luckiest guy I know. I am very grateful for the interest in
my condition, but I also hope everyone understands I wish to keep this a
private matter.”
Multiple myeloma is a
relatively uncommon cancer – the American Cancer Society pegs the average
person’s lifetime risk of getting it at 1 in 149 (or .67 percent). Still, about
every year, more than 24,000 people are diagnosed with it, and about 11,000
people die from it. This kind of cancer is more common in older people, men and
African-Americans, and it may run in families, according to the National
Institutes of Health.
Multiple Myeloma
Chris A. McWilton
is a director at the Multiple Myeloma
Research Foundation, and a division president for MasterCard Incorporated.
Note: Mark Schwartz is
a director at MasterCard Incorporated,
was George Soros’s senior adviser,
and the president & CEO for Soros
Fund Management.
George
Soros is the founder for Soros Fund
Management, his senior adviser was Mark
Schwartz, and the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Jennifer Brokaw
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and her father is Tom
Brokaw.
Tom
Brokaw is Jennifer Brokaw’s father,
an overseer for the International Rescue
Committee, a trustee at the Mayo
Clinic, was a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and the anchor for the NBC Nightly News.
Tom Brokaw Diagnosed with Cancer (Past Research)
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Colin
L. Powell is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and his son is Michael
K. Powell.
Michael K. Powell
is Colin L. Powell’s son, a trustee
at the Mayo Clinic, and a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank).
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