Patrick Swayze has checked into a hospital. The actor who has battled pancreatic cancer has pneumonia and he checked in for observation.

Bob DeBitetto, the president and general manager of A&E,told sources:

“He’s still fighting’

“Patrick is undergoing treatment and he’s still fighting,” a source close to the star tells PEOPLE Magazine. “He felt so bad that he couldn’t be at the TCAs. He’s fighting and doing well, and that’s all anybody can hope for at this stage. He is not at death’s door. Nobody ever knows with cancer, but he’s doing alright. As soon as he’s out, he’s going to try to reschedule as much as he can.”

During a recent interview with Barbara Walters Swayze talked about battling cancer told her his road had been difficult “You can bet that I’m going through hell,” the 56 year-old actor said. “And I’ve only seen the beginning of it.”

The announcement that he had been diagnosed came last March and it has taken a huge emotional toll. Swayze said: “There’s a lot of fear here, Yeah, I’m scared. Yeah, I’m angry. Yeah, I’m (asking), why me.”

Swayze is stll looking ahead despite all he’s been through he said: “I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer, but in the light.” We send him our well wishes for a full recovery.

Other interesting Patrick Swayze stuff:

2008 – “It is so sad,” Jennifer Grey, 47, who appeared with Swayze, 55, in 1987’s Dirty Dancing, said of the actor’s cancer diagnosis reports Britain’s Telegraph. “If I saw him on the streets today, I’d throw my arms around him and love him up,” says the actress.

1998 -Actor Patrick Swayze was not injuried on Thursday, when he was forced to make an emergency landing of the plane he was flying outside of Phoenix. The “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” star, 47, was flying a twin-engine Cessna 414A from the San Fernando Valley in Southern California to Las Vegas.

2007 – Actress Scarlett Johansson revealed her dream date. Patrick Swayze!



sources: People Magazine, GOOGLE Images