Yesterday's news that Patrick Swayze is dying of terminal pancreatic cancer was so unexpected that many people believed it to be made up.

Sadly that's not the case at all. Patrick Swayze's publicist has confirmed that the actor has been diagnosed with the disease and is undergoing treatment for it.

However, the publicist added that the 'five weeks to live' angle of the stories were wide of the mark. Apparently Patrick Swayze only has a limited amount of cancer growing inside him and is responding well to the treatment, it has been said.

Rumours have started to emerge suggesting that Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has terminal cancer and has been given five weeks to live.

A National Enquirer report claims that Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January and that it has now spread to other organs. Despite