Los Angeles – Renowned actor Patrick Swayze checked himself into a hospital for observation Friday, just before a planned press conference with the TV Critics Association which was scheduled to promote his new A&E series “The Beast.”
In Swayze’s absence A&E president and general manager Robert DeBitetto revealed that, “Patrick has asked me to tell you that he has checked himself into the hospital this morning for observation after coming down with pneumonia. As anyone who has had a friend or family member who is undergoing treatment for cancer must know, chemotherapy can take a toll on the immune system, and illnesses are an unavoidable part of it.”
Swayze (Dirty Dancing, Ghost, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for everything! Julie Newmar) has been publicly battling inoperable stage 4 pancreatic cancer since May 2008, a disease which doctors typically say is fatal within as little as six months.
This follows his first interview since the announcement of his diagnosis, a session with ABC’s Barbara Walters in which he admitted that he estimates his life expectancy to be “two years.”
Although he has surpassed the usual odds of survival, Swayze allowed that he doesn’t have much time to live in his condition. “I’ve never been one to run from a challenge,” the actor said. “I’m going through hell. And I’ve only seen the beginning of it.”
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