Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and one report says that he is responding well to treatment while others offer the inevitable shudder that this cancer is not an easy one to beat.

Lets please send our prayers to him, his wife and his family. And think of him as young and vibrant, like in his famous triumphant moments at in Dirty Dancing.

Patrick Swayze happens to be a real Hollywood good guy.

We loved him when he leaped to fame dancing with and romancing with Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing.

We adored him as Demi Moore's lover and protector from the other side in Ghost.

And he has been married to the same woman, Lisa Niema, for a million years. Life partner and dance partner, these are two people who embody their loving relationship and who could be poster kids for aging gracefully in Hollywood.

According to Wikipedia, they married in 1975 and have been together since "Lisa, at 15, began dance lessons with Swayze's mother"Patsy Swayze.