Patrick Swayze has Pancreatic Cancer...

[DarthChimay]

Patrick Swayze, best known for his role in Dirty Dancing, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told that he has just five weeks to live.

Swayze, 55, has been sick with the disease since he was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer. The cancer has since spread to other organs and now the actor/dancer is dying.

For the past month, Swayze has been traveling to Stanford University's prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful, according to the National Enquirer.

Swayze received three treatments of chemotherapy, causing the tumor to shrink, but less than his doctors had hoped for. He was then told that he should prepare for the end.

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=39197&cat=2

[RVR II]

WTF
1st; Jeff Healy, now Patrick Swayze himself has terminal cancer?? Holy Sh*t! This Is Not Good!
Best Wishes are in order!

[kodiakthejuggler]

He doesn't seem the type to just curl up and die. I'm sure he'll fight it as long as possible.

[DarthChimay]

I think it's time to not be nice to that cancer.

[Courtney]

The whole "National Enquirer" bit of this gives me hope.  I really hope this isn't true.  For many reasons, of course, but also because if it is, I'm going to feel REALLY creepy about that Swayze-bathed-in-heavenly-light picture I posted yesterday in the "Are You Pondering" thread.

[skenderberg]

In case you need further hope, a few internet searches reveal that only a handful of other sources are reporting this, and all of them quote the Enquirer.  Until a credible news outlet comes forward with actual sources, I'm calling this a hoax.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Anyone who quotes the National Enquirer as a source is automatically a joke.

Here's a Fox News story on the report, which basically echos the NE report, but also quotes a source that says "he's seemed fine lately".  I say it's overblown shite.

[RVR II]

I'm not sure..

FoxNews has picked up on the story..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,335210,00.html (Jack beat me to it)

[Fortis]

The whole "National Enquirer" bit of this gives me hope.  I really hope this isn't true.  For many reasons, of course, but also because if it is, I'm going to feel REALLY creepy about that Swayze-bathed-in-heavenly-light picture I posted yesterday in the "Are You Pondering" thread.

I was actually just thinking about that picture, creepy...

it could take on a whole new meaning...I hope not though. Poor guy.

[DarthChimay]

The whole "National Enquirer" bit of this gives me hope.  I really hope this isn't true.  For many reasons, of course, but also because if it is, I'm going to feel REALLY creepy about that Swayze-bathed-in-heavenly-light picture I posted yesterday in the "Are You Pondering" thread.

Yeah, I've been trying to find some sort of confirmation outside the Enquirer's article, but no such luck yet.

And, after seeing that picture, I'm sure there's some poorly timed joke I could make about all the sudden having the urge to sit at a pottery wheel.

[bettertomorrowamy]

But....but....RED DAWN! 

This is an elaborate ploy to prevent the Rifftrax of Red Dawn from happening.

ps.  I love how everybody bashes the National Enquirer and then Fox News is treated like a credible news source.

[kodiakthejuggler]

ps.  I love how everybody bashes the National Enquirer and then Fox News is treated like a credible news source.

Oh here we go again... 

[SmilinJackRoss]

ps.  I love how everybody bashes the National Enquirer and then Fox News is treated like a credible news source.

c'mon, relatively speaking, Fox is a beacon of truth and integrity compared to the NE.  Which is isn't saying much.

[skenderberg]

ps.  I love how everybody bashes the National Enquirer and then Fox News is treated like a credible news source.

c'mon, relatively speaking, Fox is a beacon of truth and integrity compared to the NE.  Which is isn't saying much.

True, but in this case, NE is Fox's only source as well.  I still say hoax.

[Courtney]

But....but....RED DAWN! 

This is an elaborate ploy to prevent the Rifftrax of Red Dawn from happening.

Not to mention Dirty Dancing, which together are my number 1 and 2 choices for upcoming tracks.