Posted on 05/19/2008 7:39:40 PM PDT by hripka
No Elvis was a singer first, then an actor (sort of).
Steve Jobs was incredibly lucky, he had one of the most survivable kinds.
I remember Michael Landon on Carson. He basically said he was just diagnosed, and did his public goodbyes.
Can be very fast.
no, steve mcqueen didn’t die from a photo of himself
America’s Globe? Do they mean the tabloid, “The Globe”?
London (ANI): Dirty Dancing legend Patrick Swayze has reportedly readied his will, transferring his property worth millions to his wife of 32 years, Lisa Niemi.According to a friend, the move is a part of his final farewell to his wife as the end draws closer. “Patrick told Lisa, ‘I will always love you and can’t imagine how my life would have been without you’. It was very touching, and it’s part of his final farewell to his wife as the end draws closer,” The Sun quoted the pal, as saying. The actor had to have an emergency surgery after the cancer spread and part of his stomach was removed.
“Patrick told his family he’s not giving up, but he wanted to make sure everything like the will was in place in the event that his health began to fail quickly and he didn’t have time to take care of things,” the friend added. The Ghost star no longer looks like his former self especially with the months of treatment he has been going through for his cancer, but he tries to live his life as normally as possible.
Swayze, who is battling pancreatic cancer, was spotted shopping near his ranch on the outskirts of LA, and his gaunt appearance could be seen even beneath a pair of sunglasses.
Patrick Swayze looks grey and gaunt as battle against cancer takes its toll
The magazine reports that Patrick recently suffered a terrible setback when doctors removed part of his stomach after discovering the cancer had spread. According to the report, Patrick had been pinning his hopes for a cure on the experimental CyberKnife at Stanford University's Cancer Center.
According to the report from Enquirer, the growth has responded somewhat, but physicians discovered it had also spread to part of his stomach - which they removed. For now, the magazine reports that Swayze is continuing chemotherapy and his fans continue to support him and wish him the best.
Didn’t Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood score a hit from the “Paint your wagon” movie?
Yes. This is some reporter in India taking a supermarket tabloid way too seriously.
I had heard only that P cancer was a quick death sentence, but I understand Steve Jobs had a (rare) curable form and is ok. Don’t know if Patrick has any such luck.
What I find comical is the way in which the goat-gland peddlers and herb-n-vitamin hucksters and all the rest of the "alternative" kooks are so quick to level charges of greed against mainstream medicine. Some of the worthless cures these guys sell to desperate terminally-ill cancer patients cost tens of thousands of dollars. It is a very abusive business.
Quack bullsh*t. He could take this stuff by the truckload, and he will still die from this disease.
True, but this type of cancer doesn't get beat. I saw a discussion with oncologists on FoxNews regarding Swayze's smoking while undergoing treatment, and one doctor said that the pancreatic cancer was going to kill him long before the cigarettes could. The other doctor also mentioned that the stress of smoking cessation would certainly not do him any good in his condition. They both made good points.
That is so beautiful. I've been down that path.
Well, you have to read it for what I actually wrote.
It is known that this herb will stimulate the growth of new pancreatic cells.
It won’t cure pancreatic cancer, and I never said that. And if his pancreas is too far gone, whatever help it could give him will be too little too late. But this is true of anything. The fact that it can’t help everyone because their damage is too extensive doesn’t mean it must not work.
“I (and they) smell target of opportunity.
“What I find comical is the way in which the goat-gland peddlers and herb-n-vitamin hucksters and all the rest of the “alternative” kooks are so quick to level charges of greed against mainstream medicine. Some of the worthless cures these guys sell to desperate terminally-ill cancer patients cost tens of thousands of dollars. It is a very abusive business.
I’m of mixed mind on this. IMO neither all mainstream nor all “exotic” cures are foolproof. Neither are all non-toxic. I am not qualified to judge. There are plenty of mainstream treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars. Certainly, mainstream drugs are vetted in what we think of as a stringent and multi-year process of clinical testing. At the same time, as an obvious example, there is phenomenal resistance to utilizing (smoked) marijuana for pain relief/appetite stimulation purposes to those in peril from cancers or for certain eye diseases. And at the same time....we now know that many mainstream drugs have been counterfeited in China and in the best case, contain nothing, worst case, poisons of varying degrees. So, like many many things in present day reality, there is a discomforting lack of certainty.
Fundamentally, I would not deny anyone the right to seek whatever treatments he/she feels might do them good in a desperate position, at whatever cost. After all, Swayze isn’t asking any of us to pay for his treatment. If these exotic treatments ended up working for Patrick, we would cheer. If they simply picked his pocket of .01% of his net worth and gave him false hope or worse, caused him to deteriorate further, then we can decry it, but it probably isn’t the worst outcome.
The problem with pancreatic cancer of any type is that it often has spread elsewhere, and the spread may not be caught in time for effective treatment. This happened to my father, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004. He underwent a Whipple procedure late in 2004, but it was discovered later that the cancer had spread to his esophagus, and was so advanced that treatment was largely ineffective. He died 18 months later...
The fact that the cancer has spread to Mr. Swayze's stomach does not really bode well, I fear...
the infowarrior
My Dad went in six weeks, but hospice kept the pain under control.
Funny but I didn’t see any flogging. Nobody can keep you alive forever. Sad that sick and desperate people can be taken advantage of by people who can claim to cure them with their quackery.
I wish him the best.
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