Nobody puts Baby Patrick Swayze in a corner.

by Liz on June 10th, 2008

‘Nobody puts Baby in a corner’
(Dirty Dancing, 1987)

Well, from the looks of it, Patrick Swayze has taken those words to heart. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, Patrick has no intention of hidding in the corner. He’s undergone radical chemotherapy treatment at the Standford University Cancer Center in Palo Alto and the word is that the tumor has shrunk but not as much as his doctors had envisioned.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer with the 5 year survival rate of around 5% of those in the advanced stages. However, if diagnosed at the earlier stages and treated aggressively as Patrick’s has been, the five year survival rate can increase to around 17-25%.

Seems these days Patrick is standing well away from the corner. In fact, he’s standing center stage, soon to start working on a new show for A&E called ‘The Beast’.