Actor
Patrick
Swayze
passed
away
on
Monday
after
a
battle
with
pancreatic
cancer.
He
was
57.The
Dirty
Dancing
actor
was
spotted
leaving
Cedars
Sinai
Medical
Center
in
Los
Angeles
on
Wednesday
August
26.
Patrick
Swazye's
publicist,
Annett
Wolf
said
in
a
statement
Monday
evening,
"Patrick
Swayze
passed
away
peacefully
today
with
family
at
his
side
after
facing
the
challenges
of
his
illness
for
the
last
20
months."
The
Dirty
Dancing
star
was
fighting
an
ongoing
battle
with
pancreatic
cancer.
He
suffered
from
intestinal
bleeding
and
was
admitted
to
hospital
in
Beverly
Hills
earlier
this
month.
During
the
treatment,
he
was
accompanied
by
his
wife
Lisa
and
brother
Danny.
Swayze
had
been
confined
to
a
wheelchair.
However,
Fans
of
the
actor
were
saddened
to
learn
in
March
2008
that
Swayze
was
suffering
from
a
particularly
deadly
form
of
cancer.
Despite
his
fight
with
a
particularly
deadly
form
of
cancer,
e
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.
When
he
first
went
public
with
the
illness,
some
reports
gave
him
only
weeks
to
live,
but
his
doctor
said
his
situation
was
"considerably
more
optimistic" than
that.
Swayze
acknowledged
that
time
might
be
running
out
given
the
grim
nature
of
the
disease.