Tom Brokaw , 75 , will release a new memoir about his battle with cancer , titled A Lucky Life Interrupted . Tom Brokaw has announced he will share the story about his battle with cancer in a new memoir titled A Lucky Life Interrupted . Brokaw , 75 , drew upon a journal he began keeping in late 2013 after he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma , a cancer in the bone marrow 's white blood cells . The retired NBC anchor said he hopes the book will help others who have to deal 'with this unwelcome condition , ' in a statement he released through publisher Random House . The book will be released May 12 . Brokaw remained private through much of his cancer treatment , publicly announcing he had cancer only six months after he was diagnosed . During an interview with David Letterman , Brokaw said he was 'pleased with the progress ' of his treatment but that 's as far as he would go in describing his fight with the disease . 'There are a lot of other people out there ... going through what I 'm going through , and they do n't have the advantages I do , ' he told the talk show host , according to The Hollywood Reporter . Brokaw , who told Letterman his work was 'therapy ' , continued to work throughout his treatment , serving as a special NBC correspondent and contributing to the network 's winter Olympics coverage in Sochi last year . In September Brokaw revealed on the Today Show that the cancer was almost gone , although he recognized that 'the disease will not completely go away ' but can be 'managed ' . Three months later Brokaw announced that he was officially in remission and that he would be going on a drug maintenance regimen 'to keep it there ' , he said in a note to his 'NBC family ' that was obtained by The Hollywood Reporter . Brokaw served as the head anchor for NBC Nightly News for 23 years before he retired and passed the chair to Brian Williams in 2004 . He remained mostly silent during the controversy surrounding Williams ' story about his experience in the Iraq war and released a statement that said the anchor 's fate was in both Williams and NBC 's hands . Brokaw continues to serve as a special correspondent for NBC and has written seven other books . Brokaw , who was the lead anchor of NBC Nightly News for 23 years and still serves as a network correspondent , said he hoped the book would help others who had to deal 'with this unwelcome condition '
The book will be titled A Lucky Life Interrupted and will be released May 12 . Brokaw drew upon a journal he began keeping after he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2013 . The former NBC news anchor remained fairly private throughout his treatment . Announced he was in remission in December 2014 .