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Patrick Swayze Has Five Weeks to Live Due to Pancreatic Cancer
Transworldnews.com ^ | Atlanta, GA 3/05/2008 03:44 PM GMT (FINDITT)

Posted on 03/05/2008 8:47:06 AM PST by Perdogg

Patrick Swayze was told that he has five weeks to live after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Swayze, 55, has been sick with the disease since he was diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer, but the cancer has since spread to other organs and now the Dirty Dancing star is dying.

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

Swayze received three doses of chemotherapy, causing the tumor to shrink, but less than his doctors had hoped for.

Swayze has reportedly lost more than 20 pounds in the past few weeks and is restricted to a liquid diet because he has trouble keeping down solid food.


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1 posted on 03/05/2008 8:47:07 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: jdm; Tax-chick; MotleyGirl70; PennsylvaniaMom

ping


2 posted on 03/05/2008 8:47:42 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Will the mods pull this one too?


3 posted on 03/05/2008 8:48:22 AM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: cspackler

I didn’t know this was pulled earlier. Why? It was sourced.


4 posted on 03/05/2008 8:49:23 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Think about WHERE it was sourced.


5 posted on 03/05/2008 8:49:48 AM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: cspackler

Why was the first thread pulled?


6 posted on 03/05/2008 8:50:04 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Perdogg

I was tempted to make an off color ghost comment, but with no human hope left he still has one option left, and it doesn’t cost a single cent.


7 posted on 03/05/2008 8:50:28 AM PST by Xenophon450 (I guess I'll never know, some things under the sun can never be understood...)
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To: cspackler; RummyChick

“No thanks” is not a reason for pulling a news story.

Especially when there are American Idol threads, threads with silly-a** potpourri and Hobbit nonsense here.


8 posted on 03/05/2008 8:50:32 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Petronski

Well, it was also on the Huffington Post, so it MUST be true. LOL


9 posted on 03/05/2008 8:50:40 AM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Perdogg

I’m very sorry to hear this. I’ve always thought Patrick Swayze was very attractive.


10 posted on 03/05/2008 8:51:15 AM PST by Tax-chick (I am snide and not intellectual today. How are you doing?)
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To: Perdogg
This story is all over the web.

If it’s true, what a disaster.

11 posted on 03/05/2008 8:51:17 AM PST by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: Petronski

It’s all over the “mainstream” now.


12 posted on 03/05/2008 8:51:28 AM PST by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg
It’s all over the “mainstream” now.

Yes it is.

Google News search: "Patrick Swayze" + cancer

13 posted on 03/05/2008 8:53:30 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Vision

With Jeff Healey just passing, it makes you wonder if there is a “Roadhouse Curse.”

That being said, I hope this news isn’t true. Who would ever forget his SNL skit with the late Chris Farley as the Chippendale wannabe. And of course Red Dawn.


14 posted on 03/05/2008 8:53:30 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Perdogg
"I didn’t know this was pulled earlier.

I pulled it. Sometimes I pull threads just because I can...

:p

15 posted on 03/05/2008 8:54:31 AM PST by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: Perdogg

That’s an awful shame. Prayers for him and his family.


16 posted on 03/05/2008 8:55:07 AM PST by Nea Wood (I'm not a bad Christian because I refuse to join you in giving other people's stuff away.)
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To: dfwgator
Prayers out for a Red Dawn cast member.
17 posted on 03/05/2008 8:55:12 AM PST by Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30)
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To: Constitution Day
"“No thanks” is not a reason for pulling a news story."

Wholeheartedly agree...

18 posted on 03/05/2008 8:55:35 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.")
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To: peggybac

Guess the didn’t like the fact that the original came from the Enquirer. Go figure..


19 posted on 03/05/2008 8:56:06 AM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: dfwgator

Roadhouse was a great guy flick but it will never make up for Dirty Dancing though......

Sad news for him and his family.


20 posted on 03/05/2008 8:56:35 AM PST by misterrob (Obama-Does America Need Another Jimmy Carter?)
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