Health

Patrick Swayze released from hospital

by Barry Artiste | January 17, 2009 at 06:10 am

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Barry Artiste Op/Ed

I guess the photo says it all. Optimistically to say a 5 year survival rate, when 6 months is the norm. Cancer research has been going on for decades and decades, in what many believe is a lost cause when treatment is the prime concern, when many want a cure instead. Such a tragic shame.

LOS ANGELES - Actor Patrick Swayze, the "Dirty Dancing" star who is battling pancreatic cancer, has been released from a weeklong stay at a hospital where he was treated for pneumonia, People magazine reported on Friday.

Swayze, 56, was hospitalized in Los Angeles on January 9, hours before he was scheduled to appear at a gathering of television critics to promote his new TV crime drama, "The Beast," which premiered on the A&E cable network on Thursday.

The actor stars as a rogue FBI undercover agent.

"I am happy to announce that Patrick Swayze is home after a brief hospitalization for pneumonia," his spokeswoman, Annett Wolf, told People in a report published on the magazine's website.