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Swayze's Battle

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Swayze's Battle

Published: Wed, 7 Jan 2009

Description: Actor opens up about fighting pancreatic cancer

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" Without the I gotta tell -- story that is not happy but it find it really intriguing inspiring is Patrick Swayze. As you know about a year ago was diagnosed with cancer needs pancreatic cancer and doctors said listen it's only going to be if you the only I have weeks. Well he's defied the odds while he's the weeks -- part of this stuff we read in the tabloids. He sat down with the Barbara Walters. And and was very very honest he is he would remember pancreatic cancer there is no cure he's in stage four. Here he is talking about his trip thus far."

" Tried to have champagne it was be like. Poor and -- and you know on an open wound and then my a it's indigestion. Issues got to got -- gigantic can constant. And NASA has taken -- didn't skinny. How much like the games. Drugs but when he tells the wake of nine. And then when you see in the Maryland all of a sudden you're -- and put your eyes down and you're good about Ramirez Coolio and -- sits in and you know something's wrong. In the started doing research asserted in sort of realizing this is not pretty. This is not a good thing."

" For the first few weeks it was like he is like being an I'm Mary could wake up front. And there's there's not his wife fell -- meaning they've been married for a couple decades at least. On so -- the successful Hollywood marriages there but the amazing thing is that there is no care for this they had already progressed to his liver when he was diagnosed I believe at the end of 2007. He has tried some sort of therapy but it stopped. Working I believe it was chemotherapy on the weekends. And so now he he admits in this interview that he knows he may -- does not have a tremendous amount of time how hurtful it is. That the tabloids. Have been saying that he's on his death but I today."

" And also the fact he's his five years will be tough so he's kind of emotional thinking yeah wishful thinking. But he he says he's fighters who he's working twelve hour today at some point -- was doing his series called. And -- the beast its hour right now. So we go on -- weakened back to Los Angeles and take the treatment. But meanwhile it's it's amazing to discuss in great shape great dancer. Very a very good seems to be by all cats we've got a lot of -- times yeah he seems to be a great guy and that guy that -- this Hollywood thing. So here's a guy who's battling his way through it. But he also says that he's also trying to race for cure sure because he can't since it was. Since it pay increases effective delivered effectively that they can -- taken out so they'll go with his re sources. Can really accelerate the process is a fighter and he's going to fight every step of the way any in fact he said when you decide. The fight isn't matching up to your quality of life but at this stage and he's in for the fight he says he would like to go five years that would be wishful thinking. But it also sounds like realistically you're doctors say you would be lucky to get two years so we'll keep you posted on Patrick Swayze and his battle with cancer."

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Jill -- live with us on the phone -- thanks very much Patrick Swayze said at one point -- he was going through this awful ordeal. I'm going through hell and I have only seen the beginning of it. And then later -- I'm angry I'm asking why me. I am all of this stuff a future with a long and healthy life not lived in the shadow of cancer. Patrick Swayze died today according to his publicist I'm sure.