by wildcherry on Monday, September 14th, 2009 | Entertainment, News | 1 Comment

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” said a statement released Monday evening by his publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were given.

Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.

He had 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. It 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.

Swayze said he opted not to use painkilling drugs while making “The Beast” because they would have taken the edge off his performance. He acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.

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.

“I’d say five years is pretty wishful thinking,” Swayze told ABC’s Barbara Walters in early 2009. “Two years seems likely if you’re going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I’d better get a fire under it.”

Patrick Swayze Funeral

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by wildcherry on Monday, July 13th, 2009 | Health, News, World | No Comments

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said Monday, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year.

The 67-year-old Kim was diagnosed with the cancer around the time he was felled by the stroke last summer, Seoul’s YTN television reported, citing unidentified intelligence officials in South Korea and China.

The report cited the officials saying the disease is “threatening” Kim’s life.

Pancreatic cancer is usually found in its final stage, and considering Kim’s age, he is expected to live no more than five years, the report said.

South Korea’s spy agency said it could not confirm the report. Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters he knows nothing of the report. Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Tae-young also said he had no information.

The won dropped to a two-month low as overseas investors cut their holdings of the nation’s shares by the most since April 8. Kim, who has yet to announce a successor, is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has less than five years to live, Seoul-based YTN television reported, citing unidentified intelligence officials in China and South Korea. The North has in the past two months tested a nuclear bomb, fired missiles into the waters off its coast and threatened to attack the South.

“The currency and stocks responded sharply to Kim Jong Il’s rumored illness, which may increase uncertainty over the Korean peninsula,” said Christian Jin, a fund manager at HI Asset Management Co. in Seoul, which oversees the equivalent of $7.7 billion in assets. “The issue may hang over markets in the short-term, as will a correction in global shares.”

The won declined 2.6 percent to close at 1,316.50 per dollar in Seoul, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s the weakest it’s been since April 30. The Kospi fell 3.5 percent, while the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index of regional equities slid 2.5 percent.

Kim may have only one more year to live as his health deteriorates, the Washington Times reported on its Web site on July 10, citing an unidentified U.S. official. The 67 year-old leader, who has made only two public appearances this year, is close to transferring control of the communist nation to his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, a South Korea official said June 24 on condition of anonymity.

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by wildcherry on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Inspiration, Life | 3 Comments

I’ve seen his lecture few times before but just realize that he finally passed away on July. For those of you who hasn’t seen it, this might be a life changing lecture :).

Here’s a little bit summary of his situation before his Last Lecture.

“Late in the summer of 2006, I started having some unusual symptoms, culminating with jaudice. Scans revealed it was pancreatic cancer. At this time, my wife Jai and I had a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a three month old baby.Pancreatic cancer is the most deadly of cancers, with only a 4% 5-year survival rate. The only hope is to be one of the 20% of patients (which I was) where surgery is possible. ”

Dr. Pausch website

More info On Dr. Pausch:

Randolph Frederick (”Randy”) Pausch[2] (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Columbia, Maryland. Pausch received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from Brown University in 1982 and his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in August 1988. Pausch later became an associate professor at the University of Virginia, before working at Carnegie Mellon University as an associate professor.

He gave his “The Last Lecture” speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon. Pausch conceived the lecture after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal.[3] The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical “final talk”, with a topic such as “what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?” The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller.

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