The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to.

I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.

We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will: We were all reporters first and anchors second.