Originally Posted By jonvn Sad news, he has pancreatic cancer. 10% survival rate. Hope he's lucky. <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0" target="_blank">http://www.people.com/people/a rticle/0</a>,,20182300,00.html
Originally Posted By jdub Cancer is an awful thing, no matter who the victim. Wish there were a cure.
Originally Posted By johnno52 There are cures for cancers, usually removal of the tumor before it metastasis (spreads). This is one disease that has no socio/economic boundaries. Isn't he making or releasing a new "Dirty Dancing"?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Sad news, indeed. Pancreatic cancer is one of the worst forms of the disease, mainly because it usually doesn't show symptoms until the disease is quite advanced.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle Very sad news. I heard them say on the radio that there's nothing they can do for him at this stage and he has about 5 weeks to live. The People article was more optimistic, so hopefully he'll be lucky.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I heard them say on the radio that there's nothing they can do for him at this stage and he has about 5 weeks to live. << This article denies that. I hope it's correct. <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=95c876d8-ec3c-4835-92fa-31f160865351" target="_blank">http://www.eonline.com/news/ar ticle/index.jsp?uuid=95c876d8-ec3c-4835-92fa-31f160865351</a>
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>This article denies that. I hope it's correct<< Yeah, the People article denied it too, and given that the original source was the National Inquirer or something, hopefully these are more accurate!
Originally Posted By DAR Back in the 80's the girls my age had Dirty Dancing. But he also remembered his male fans and gave us this classic: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POfnFjyHiRw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =POfnFjyHiRw</a> Here's to a speedy recovery.
Originally Posted By dshyates Its interesting Roadhouse came up. The guitarist that played the title track for the movie, Jeff Healey, died of cancer at the age of 41 this past Sunday. Jeff had fought cancer since the age of 1, when he had retinal cancer. This left him blind. He played the guitar with it sitting across his lap. I saw Jeff 3 times by accident, he always seemed to open for or join on stage some of my favorite rock acts in the late 80s like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Little Feat.
Originally Posted By dshyates Johnno, you beat me to it. I got distracted with watching Jeff Healey play Roadhouse on YouTube. It came up on the sidebar when I clicked DARs link.
Originally Posted By johnno52 His death was in all our news this week and as soon as I clicked the link for the movie I remembered it as they showed the same one for Jeff. Sad and he was so young and a life long sufferer from cancer.
Originally Posted By JazzCat I'm gonna make sure I have lots of tissues if he passes that soon. Wait...who am I kidding? I'll need boxes of tissues when he passes. I really admire those people who can dance, act and sing. (And look good doing it too!)
Originally Posted By wonderingalice Such a talent and from all indications just a super nice guy... I remember seeing him dance with his wife (on SNL, I believe). That was before I ever saw Dirty Dancing. It just blew me away. And then, of course... the Chippendales bit with Chris Farley - CLASSIC! One of my favorites... "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar." Brave (and FUN) roles for all three actors, but Swayze's character was just the best! I'm rambling... I don't want to see him go. :-(
Originally Posted By DAR <<And then, of course... the Chippendales bit with Chris Farley - CLASSIC!>> Arguably one of SNL's top five moments.
Originally Posted By mater4 This is sad news especially for him and his family. Unfortunately docters can never accurately predict when cancer will take your life. I think their predictions are worst case scenario. My aunt passed from lung cancer last year. They gave her 5 months she lived for a little over a year from the diagnosis. When it gets too advanced they stop the treatments.
Originally Posted By Ursula Was I the only one shocked at his age? I thought he was younger...then again, I haven't aged one year since Dirty Dancing came out... I wonder about the National Fishwrapper. Maybe it is true that three-headed aliens inhabit the earth. Why did they have the Swayze story first?
Originally Posted By jdub Yes, not matter WHO it hits. When I wished for a cure earlier, I meant CURE--not treatment which we hope will be effective. There is attempted removal, attempted irradiation... but cancer is nasty--it can be chased away somewhere, and appear again somewhere else... at sometimes in places where there is nothing that can be done. Too bad we can't vaccinate against it!
