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Patrick Swayze: Going Through Hell

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Jan. 6 2009, Published 6:03 a.m. ET

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A year into his struggle with pancreatic cancer, Patrick Swayze says he's not giving up, and will keep fighting. He's even working on a new TV series as he deals with the cancer.

"I've never been one to run from a challenge," he tells Barbara Walters in his first  interview since his cancer diagnosis last January.

But just because he's not running, doesn't mean he's got his own worries about the future. 

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"I don't know," he replies, when asked if he's scared. "I will be so either truthful or stupid as to say no. But then I immediately, when I say that, I have to say yes, I am."

"You can bet that I'm going through hell," he adds in the interview, airing Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 10 p.m. ET. "And I've only seen the beginning of it."

The Dirty Dancing star first realized something was amiss when on New Year's Eve last year, celebrating with his wife, Lisa Niemi.

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"I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid, you know, on an open wound."

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