Actor Patrick Swayze dead at 57Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, best known for his roles in the hit films "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer Malignant tumour of the pancreas. Risk factors include smoking, a diet high in fat, exposure to certain industrial products, and diseases such as diabetes and chronic pancreatitis. Pancreatic cancer is more common in men. , his publicist said Monday. The 57-year-old heart-throb had died after suffering complications from the illness, Swayze's publicist said. Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage-four pancreatic cancer in January 2008, leaving him with only a one-percent chance of surviving longer than five years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. medical experts. Swayze had bravely fought the disease in the public eye, continuing to work despite cancer treatment and significant weight loss. In January he slammed tabloid reporting of his illness in an interview with ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. television's Barbara Walters Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929[2]) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20 , where he bullishly declared that he was determined to beat his condition. He told Walters he had tried to keep his illness secret but went public to protect family and friends after tabloids reported he was close to death. "Hope is a very, very fragile thing in anyone's life and the people I love do not need to have that hope robbed from them when it's unjustified and it's untrue," Swayze said. In May, Swayze's spokesperson condemned "reckless" reports that the star had died, saying he was alive and well and responding to treatment. A lanky Texan with a dancer's easy grace, Swayze -- the son of a dance teacher and an engineering drafter -- had a string of hit films in the 1980s and 1990s. He was named "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine in 1991. As a young man, he moved to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in 1972 for more formal dance training at the prestigious Harkness Ballet and Joffrey ballet Joffrey Ballet, one of the major American dance companies. It was founded in New York City in 1954 by the dancer-choreographer Robert Joffrey. From 1956 to 1964 it made yearly tours of the United States. schools. He scored a small-screen success in the 1985 television miniseries North and South, which was set in the American Civil War American Civil War or Civil War or War Between the States (1861–65) Conflict between the U.S. federal government and 11 Southern states that fought to secede from the Union. . After years of roles on television and the silver screen Swayze shot to superstardom in 1987 with his film "Dirty Dancing," an international blockbuster in which he played a dancing teacher to a young wallflower wallflower, Mediterranean perennial (Cheiranthus cheiri) of the family Cruciferae (mustard family), particularly popular in Europe, where it flourishes on old walls. who starts to bloom. In "Ghost," Swayze starred opposite Demi Moore Demi Kutcher (born Demetria Gene Guynes on November 11, 1962) is an American actress. For most of her career, she has been known as Demi Moore, using the surname of her first husband, singer-songwriter Freddy Moore. and Whoopi Goldberg in a film that won Goldberg an Oscar. In 1995, he took a turn in drag in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar." Swayze soldiered, on working through much of his illness, and spending time with wife Lisa Niemi, a dancer and actress. While 2004's "Dirty Dancing 2," in which he had a small role, was not a hit, he just recently acted for five months in a television series "The Beast," in which he played an FBI agent. "You can bet that I'm going through hell," Swayze told Walters in January. "I'm at the beginning of my battle. And I expect it to be a long hard battle, one that I'm gonna win according to certain rules -- and the rules that the cancer isn't going away," he added. Swayze said he had met the diagnosis with defiance. "I have the meanness and the passion to say, 'To hell with you. Watch me! You watch what I pull off,'" he told Walters. 
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