Patrick Swayze
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Audrina Patridge going public with Tal Cooperman was actually not the most exciting news from the weekend.

Patrick Swayze - who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March - is successfully battling his disease and heading back to work!

A&E has ordered 13 episodes of The Beast, a show in which Swayze portrays an unorthodox FBI veteran who trains a new partner while being pursued by a secret Internal Affairs team.

Cancer, Shmancer! Patrick Swayze is going back to work.

"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting-edge," Swayze said in a statement.

We wish him the best.

The following piece of entertainment news was taken from The National Enquirer, making it less reliable than Britney Spears when called in to court.

We hope we'll be able to print a retraction of this shortly, but the aforementioned tabloid states that Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He only has five weeks to live, the newspaper reports.

"For the past month, Patrick, 55, has been traveling to Stanford University's prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the treatments will be successful," states the magazine.

An insider reportedly said that: "He was told he could have two more treatments, but his cancer was not responding. In short - they held out little hope for a cure."

Swayze is best known for his role in Dirty Dancing, the dance-off classic that spawned such hits years later as You Got Served and Step Up 2 the Streets.