Patrick Swayze

Remember Patrick Swayze back in 1987 in 'Dirty Dancing'? "No one puts Baby in a corner." Nevermind, some of you might be too young to remember that line. Anyway, like most of us girls, I was in love with him. I think of him often as he fights his battle with pancreatic cancer.

The Dirty Dancing star, 56, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer early last year and in recent pics has appeared to have gained a little weight and grown some of his hair back. He had even added a goatee.

The latest picture is nice to see and is a huge contrast to photos taken in April, when he looked so bad. Early on, it was thought that he would not live long with the cancer spreading quickly, but with his advanced form of radiotherapy, there may be new hope for him.

He is undergoing The CyberKnife, a technique that shoots hundreds of beams of radiation at hard-to-reach tumours. It moves with the patient's breathing, meaning it can target tumours deemed inoperable due to their proximity to major blood vessels.

Cancer takes so many of those we love away from us, so it is nice to hear stories like Patrick's. I hope he continues to do well and can get back to work. I can't wait to see him on his first television series, “The Beast,” where he plays an F.B.I. agent with a checkered past.