Dick Nourse Illness: What Was Dick Nourse Suffering From?

In 1980, Nourse learned he had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a form of cancer. He was off-the-air and in the hospital for chemotherapy treatment. His co-anchor at the time, Shelly Thomas, interviewed him and his doctor.

Nourse’s doctors were unsure of his chances at survival, but Nourse survived cancer twice ( he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996) and has since been involved in fundraising for cancer research.

However, Nourse was diagnosed with throat cancer in late 2012; in an interview with competing station KUTV, he said it had gone into remission by early 2013.

Nourse concluded his 43-year career with his final newscast on November 28, 2007, a record term for a Utah television news anchor. Nourse’s longevity as an American news anchor comes second to that of the late Hal Fishman, whose career spanned 47 years.