Patrick Swayze has Pancreatic Cancer...

[SecretAgentSuperDragon]

Well thats good. It's funny to go back in the thread and find the 8 week old news stories that say he has 5 weeks to live.

Patrick must have been getting tips from Dick Cheney.

[Fortis]

Huzzah!

[PlayMSTie]

Looks like his new TV series has been picked up. (Scroll down to the fourth item on the page.) Good luck to him!

[Mike D]

Well thats good. It's funny to go back in the thread and find the 8 week old news stories that say he has 5 weeks to live.

Most of that came from tabloids...they love a good celebrity death story, and believe it or not, sometimes they will engage in journalism that is less than fully scrupulous.

I'll give you a second to recover from the shock of that revelation.

Interesting that comes from March...that was about the same time Randy Pausch was representing the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network before Congress.  For those of you who don't know, Randy Pausch was a CMU professor who died of pancreatic cancer just a little over a week ago...and if you haven't seen his Last Lecture video, you really should.

Yeah, best of all possible luck to Swayze...pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers there is.  I'm glad the guy is working and seems to be holding up OK, but odds are he'll be gone within a year.

Mike

[AmandaGal]

Here's the latest:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10545456

It's sourced from the Enquirer, so grain of salt.

[bettertomorrowamy]

Cancer sucks.

[Dim of the Yard]

Cancer sucks.

I agree.  Leo's where it's at.

[bettertomorrowamy]

Cancer sucks.

I agree.  Leo's where it's at.

Doh!...I'm a Cancer.

[Courtney]

Here's the latest:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10545456

It's sourced from the Enquirer, so grain of salt.

The Enquirer broke the story the first time around.  They're actually right a lot.  I just hope they aren't this time.

[RVR II]

Just found this..

From FoxNews

Actor Patrick Swayze is firing back at the media outlets that have been reporting his cancer has spread by arguing that he is still fighting the "good fight."

The "Ghost" star, 56, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, fired back at claims he has been saying goodbye to members of his family.

In a statement to FOX News, Swayze said that he "very proud" of the work he has done on his new series "The Beast," and that he is winning the battle against cancer so far.

"I am happy to be back home for the holidays," Swayze said. "It's a great feeling of accomplishment to say you're gonna do something and do it.

"The only thorn in my side being that many tabloids have been consistently reporting lies and false information about me and those close to me," he continued. "And latest, they're reporting that I'm on my last legs and saying goodbye my tearful family!

"Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease and from the moment I was diagnosed, I knew I was in for the fight of my life. It's a battle, and so far, I've been winning. I'm one of the lucky few that responds well to treatment."

Patrick Swayze: 'Chemo is Hell on Wheels' Patrick Swayze Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer Swayze called the tabloid rumors "downright emotional cruelty."

"It's upsetting that the shoddy and reckless reporting from these publications cast a negative shadow on the positive and good fight I'm fighting," he said, adding "that makes me angry when hope is so precious."

News of the actor's illness surfaced in March, when initial tabloid reports said that he had only five weeks left to live.

But Swayze and his physicians have maintained that he is responding well to treatment. According to a statement from his physician George Fisher, "Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue."

Swayze did say however that his chemotherapy treatments are like "hell on wheels," but pledged that he would remain positive in spite of the fact that statistics say he was "a dead man."

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

In a way this could be good for him emotionally, if he looks at it the right way.

Survive just to prove all of these tabloids wrong!!!     "Success is the best revenge."

[bettertomorrowamy]

Swayze cured of cancer!!

[RVR II]

Swayze cured of cancer!!

UGH 
That's like the YouTube version of The Enquirer

[BBQ Platypus]

In a way this could be good for him emotionally, if he looks at it the right way.

Survive just to prove all of these tabloids wrong!!!     "Success is the best revenge."

I always think the best revenge is feeding your enemies their own lungs.  But that's me.

Really?  I thought it was ripping their heart out of their chest and showing it to them.

Or maybe bludgeoning them to death with your own nutsack.

[Tripe]

I thought it was a Russian/Greek/Italian/Kilingon Dish

Well whatever the origin, it's a bit like gazpacho soup when it comes to serving it apparently.