Patrick Swayze of Ghost and Dirty Dancing Died of Cancer

Just heard the news that Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor of Dirty Dancing and Ghost died after a battle with cancer at the age of 57.

Swayze was diagnosed of Pancreatic cancer March of last year and this is particularly a deadly form of Cancer. His doctors predicted that he would only have a week to live but he was so optimistic and kept on working and live a normal life as much as possible.

Here’s a report from Yahoo! News

LOS ANGELES – Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement Monday evening. Swayze died in Los Angeles, Wolf said, but she declined to give further details.

Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer. He kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting “The Beast,” an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot.

Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making “The Beast” because they would have taken the edge off his performance. The show drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.