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No longer the dashing movie star with the muscular build that made him a sex symbol, brave Patrick, 56, has vowed to fight on.
"I’ve been waging an intense, often hellacious battle" he says. "It’s me against my disease. I want to last until they find a cure. My hope is that some day the words “a cure” won’t be followed by the words “is impossible”."