“The not-great news is that it’s a little aggressive,” so Roker will be taking time off from The Today Show for treatment.
Al Roker has been a mainstay on The Today Show for decades; he became the show’s full-time weatherman following the partial retirement of Willard Scott in the mid-1990s.
Since then, Roker has been one of the few Today mainstays as other anchors and on-air talents have come and gone.
During a segment on Today, Roker said the disease was discovered “after a routine checkup in September.”