RIP

Patrick Swayze succumbs to pancreatic cancer
‘Dirty Dancing’ star, 57, battled disease since January 2008

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Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer.

Swayze’s publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old “Dirty Dancing” actor died Monday with family at his side. He came forward about his illness last spring, but continued working as he underwent treatments.

It was 1987 when Swayze became a star with his performance in “Dirty Dancing,” a coming-of-age story set in a Catskills resort. The 1990 film “Ghost” cemented his status as a screen favorite.

Swayze played a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee through a spirit played by Whoopi Goldberg.

He kept on working even after it was disclosed in March 2008 that he had a particularly deadly form of cancer. He starred in “The Beast,” an A&E drama series, and said he and his wife were working on a memoir.





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cancer huh? i guess he didn't get the memo about chicken and vitamin c

Sad to hear, but not unexpected. Pancreatic cancer is a death sentence.

Funny, I was just asking my sister over the weekend, who was a big Dirty Dancing fan, if she had heard anything regarding Swayze. \

Rest in peace Patrick, and our hearts go out to your family.

Heard that he gives a dead on performance in Ghost 2.

:lol:

you have a fine sense of humor.

Well someone has to knock a cancer patient down a peg or two.

Must have been the chemo.

I'll always fondly remember him as I watch The Outsiders, Dirty Dancing and Road House.

::(:

if only he knew about the chicken and vitamin C.

::(: