Saturday, March 8, 2008

Patrick Swayze - Fighting with pancreatic cancer

Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is undergoing some special treatment.Swayze who is in early 55 was suffering from pancreatic cancer that had spread to other organs. From the first report of the doctors it mentioned that the actor has only five weeks to live in this world, but in result of the treatment his representative said that he continues his normal work .

"Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. physical side effects are absolutely untrue. Swayze’s physician, George Fisher, said that he is very optimistic about his recovery.
Caught in its advanced stage pancreatic cancer has less than a five percent survival rate in five years.By surgery or chemotheraphy we can increase the survival rate by 17 to 25 percent. It was not known whether Swayze will undergo a surgery .

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