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Patrick Swayze reportedly treated at Stanford for cancer

Actor Patrick Swayze, star of the movies "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing," is being treated on an outpatient basis at Stanford Hospital for pancreatic cancer, several news outlets reported today.

News reports say that Swayze, 55, a licensed pilot, has been flying his private Beechcraft airplane to Palo Alto for treatment.

Swayze's doctor confirmed that the actor is being treated for cancer but didn't indicate where the treatments were taking place.

A Stanford Hospital spokesman could not be reached for comment.

"Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far," Dr. George Fisher, Swayze's physician, told Fox News.

Several news reports said Swayze is terminally ill, with five weeks to live. Fisher denied those characterizations.

"All the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue," he said.

-- Don Kazak

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Posted by Muddles, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood, on Mar 5, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Hope the docs are up to snuff on this one. Everyone's watchin.

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Posted by AceStaff, a resident of the Southgate neighborhood, on Mar 8, 2008 at 1:35 am

Next time he'll get to play the ghost.

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Posted by Resident, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Mar 8, 2008 at 10:24 am

Whereas I wish the best to Patrick and his family and trust that the wonderful Stanford team is doing its best. I hope that we can give the man the privacy he deserves at a time like this and that nothing but the bare facts are reported.

Anything else is not our business.

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Posted by Denise Baum, a resident of another community, on Apr 19, 2008 at 1:27 pm

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Posted by alyssa Ibarra, a resident of Woodside, on Jun 19, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Hi, i'm Alyssa Ibarra, 9years old and I have cancer and i'm doing my radiation at Stanford Medical hospital. I will love to meet you because I been watching your movie everyday and it's one of my favorites movies (Dirty Dancing)!! Email me at my mom's email address ibarra_x07@yahoo.com. Thank you, I hope I get to meet you

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