Tom Brokaw announces he has cancer: ‘I am very optimistic’

Tom Brokaw announces he has cancer: “I am very optimistic”
The 74-year-old former “NBC Nightly News” anchor was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer affecting blood cells in the bone marrow, at the Mayo Clinic in August, according to NBC News, which adds that “doctors are optimistic about the outcome of the treatment he is receiving.”