Patrick Swayze, the Dirty Dancing star, looked healthy during his appearance at LAX airport in Los Angeles. The actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March and he has been undergoing treatment since then.

Asked about his health, Patrick Swayze smiled, gave a thumbs up and replied: "I'm a miracle, dude, I don't know why." He was heading to Chicago to start work on a new television series “The Beast”.

Patrick Swayze shot the pilot episode for the series in December 2007, before he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
After he found out about the illness, Swayze underwent a course of chemotherapy and some experimental drug treatments and now he and his executives from A&E, the network which will air the series, announced he was able to play in the production as they had previously established.

This is a very optimistic and confident decision, if we take into consideration the high mortality rate for pancreatic cancer.
Patients diagnosed with the disease are usually given only a few months to live. Patients that outlast that period of time, only have a 5 percent chance of being alive in five years, The National Cancer Institute reports.

The A&E show,“The Beast,” will be filmed in Chicago. It is slated for an early 2009 debut. A&E has picked up the series for 13 hour-long episodes.

Patrick Swayze will star as Charles Barker, an unconventional veteran FBI agent, who is teamed up with a rookie partner played by Australian actor Travis Fimmel, whom he must teach the fine ropes of the job.

Patrick Swayze will continue his course of treatment throughout filming. He has been receiving treatment at Stanford University Medical Center, near San Francisco.

Swayze and his wife of 30 years, Lisa Noemi, made an unexpected and pleasing public appearance in May, when they attended a Los Angeles Lakers game. This was Swayze’s first public outing since announcing his illness.