Nobody puts Patrick Swayze in a corner, and it seems that cancer won’t either.
The star of such hit films as “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” is going forward with plans to begin working on a new cable television series later this year despite being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March.
Cancer experts applaud his decision to continue working, saying that nothing he could do, physically, will speed the pace of cancer and that working could even benefit him mentally.
“I don’t think anything that he is doing is going to make things worse,” said Dr. Andrew Warshaw, chief surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston. “It is very common to talk about fighting your cancer. … But if you decide you are going to feel better, to some extent you can make that happen.”
