Patrick Swayze released from hospital

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LOS ANGELES – Actor Patrick Swayze, the “Dirty Dancing” star who is battling pancreatic cancer, has been released from a weeklong stay at a hospital where he was treated for pneumonia, People magazine reported on Friday.

Swayze, 56, was hospitalized in Los Angeles on January 9, hours before he was scheduled to appear at a gathering of television critics to promote his new TV crime drama, “The Beast,” which premiered on the A&E cable network on Thursday.

The actor stars as a rogue FBI undercover agent.

“I am happy to announce that Patrick Swayze is home after a brief hospitalization for pneumonia,” his spokeswoman, Annett Wolf, told People in a report published on the magazine’s website.

Source: vancouversun.com