VETERAN JOURNALIST TOM BROKAW, as many of you know, was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma at about the same time I was. He hasn’t shared a great deal about his experience publicly,  until now.

Tonight (Thursday, May 7, 2015) at 10 PM ET, he shares his cancer story on a special edition of NBC Dateline “Tom Brokaw: A Lucky Life Interrupted.”

In the special, Brokaw, a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees, interviews his Mayo Clinic doctors. Part of his goal is to “raise the level of dialogue between the patient and physician.” He says he wants to help others “have a kind of comfort level in talking to their doctors, asking the questions that need to be asked.”

As this video clip reveals, Brokaw is candid about his symptoms and initial misconceptions. I admire him for leveraging his media profile to help raise consciousness.

Click below to view the Dateline episode:
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Full Episode
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Part 2
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Part 3
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Part 4
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Part 5
A Lucky Life Interrupted – Part 6