Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:37:00
Patrick Swayze actually suffering from pancreatic cancer
Note: this post was written Wednesday morning but I forgot to set it to ‘open,’ sorry!
This was a rumor earlier today, but now it’s confirmed.
Twinkle-toed tough guy Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with cancer and might only have weeks to live, a rep for the dirty dancer said today.
Swayze’s publicist confirmed to Page Six that he’s suffering from pancreatic cancer, which could tragically bring down the curtain on his remarkably diverse career.
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Swayze was diagnosed with the cancer more than a month ago.
The average life expectancy is six to nine months, with only 4 percent of patients living more than five years.
In a widely circulated statement, Swayze’s doctor, George Fisher, said, “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 time frame of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic.”
I don’t care what anyone says. This is not a joke, either. If you want to learn how to be a man, how to treat women, how to live life successfully, you watch Swayze movies. Everything you will ever need to know can be found in them. Let’s just recap this man’s career to date:
The Outsiders (Thug life is no life)
Red Dawn (Defend against all enemies!)
Youngblood (You’re the best if you wanna be!)
Dirty Dancing (Eff the man, never let the man keep you down)
Road House (No fighting until you have no other choice, then beat the shit out of every last one of them sonsabitches)
Ghost (Treat her right, always love her, and when you can’t protect her anymore, find a way to keep doing it anyway)
Point Break (A little adventure never killed anyone. Sort of.)
Too Wong Foo (Never be so insecure in your sexuality that you can’t slap on a dress and heels).
If that was the only thing he ever did, that would be enough. But, on top of that, he was in one of the funniest sketches to come out of the post-Belushi SNL, the Chippendales tryouts sketch.
Personally, I think Swayze will punch cancer in the face with a backfist, then grande jete it right in the nuts and finish with jazz hands. That’s right, jazz hands. Because he’s more of a man than Chuck Norris will ever be. Norris went and got sixty-seven horrible facelifts. Swayze just intimidated his face into staying where it is, just like he intimidated his glorious mane of hair to not fall out.
Patrick Swayze gives cancer cancer with nothing but a sleeveless tee and the power of his mind. That’s how tough he is. Get well, Patrick.
Posted by JimK at 09:37 PM on March 05, 2008
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#2 Posted by randyp5 
on 03/07 at 04:27 PM -
All cancer is a motherfucker but pancreatic is brutal.
I lost two different friends to it, neither one made it 90 days after diagnosis.
#3 Posted by Janna on 03/08 at 01:42 AM -
This breaks my heart. Patrick was one of my first celebrity crushes. I just bought Red Dawn on DVD and watched it. I had forgotten how good it was. Being a teenager when Dirty Dancing came out I can remember going to the theater with my mom, sister and girlfiends to see it. “Nobody puts BABY in a corner”, this is of course one of my all time favorite movies. I have the North and South mini series. Ia ctually own all three North and South mini series, North and South, Love and War and Heaven and Hell. How could you now love Orry Main?? And then my first date ever we went to see Ghost where I bawled my way through it. My date was so nice about it all.
I am wishing him nothing but the best. He is too young and sexy in my opinion to die. I hope it’s not that bad and that he can find a way to beat it.
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#1 Posted by Technomad
on 03/06 at 06:52 PM -
Patrick Swayze has cancer?
I hope he treats the cancer the same way he treated the Russians in Red Dawn!
WOLVERINES!!!
Seriously, though...my GF’s mother died of that, and the father of a friend of mine. I hope the diagnosis is false---it’s a nasty way to go.