Patrick Swayze is responding well to treatment for pancreatic cancer, he told People magazine. Swayze, 55, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with cancer, is receiving treatment at Stanford University Medical Center near San Francisco. Praise to the Lord!

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“I am continuing treatment at Stanford and the great news is I continue to respond well,” Swayze said in a statement to the magazine.
The treatment evidently is not slowing him down too much. People said Swayze spent the holiday weekend taking in a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game and shopping for jewellery for his wife, Lisa, in Reno, Nev.

Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer but George Fisher, the doctor treating Swayze, said: “All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side-effects are absolutely untrue.” Dr Fisher added: “We are considerably more optimistic.”

Swayze was said to have undergone radical chemotherapy in California in January. However, there were claims that the disease had already spread to Swayze’s other vital organs.

Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi last November, 2007