In February, Tom Brokaw revealed that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma in August of 2013 and was undergoing treatment. Sunday morning, the 74-year-old NBC News special correspondent and former anchor of NBC Nightly News released a statement announcing that his cancer was in remission. “A year ago my future was more uncertain than I cared to acknowledge but now I face the New Year with very encouraging news,” Brokaw wrote in a statement released by NBC.