i'm going to go cry with baby in the corner.

[themightybee]

Patrick Swayze confirms he has cancer.

Swazye was diagnosed with the cancer more than a month ago.

The average life expectancy is six to nine months, with only 4 percent of patients live more than five years.

DUDE. ;_;

ETA - This report from People.com sounds considerably less tragic:

"Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far," Dr. George Fisher says in a statement. "All of the reports stating the time frame of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic."

Comments

[spifftronica.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've read all shades of reports about it and have given up deciding what to believe.

[lianhanshee.livejournal.com]

Hopefully they caught it early enough to have reason to be optimistic.... I've only ever heard bad things, and one personal experience in particular was awful... a very close family friend who basically was a second mom to us died of pancreatic cancer 6 months after she was diagnosed.... So when I heard the news about Patrick Swayze I was very, very saddened. Hope they caught it very early. :(