Cancer-stricken Patrick Swayze has been released from the hospital one week after checking himself in, his publicist said Friday.

Publicist Annett Wolf would not elaborate on the actor’s condition but told The Associated Press he “is well enough to have been released.” He is now resting at his L.A. home, Wolf said.

The star, who is battling pancreatic cancer, checked into the hospital with pneumonia on Jan. 9.

“He sounds really upbeat and positive,” his mother, Patsy Swayze, told Usmagazine.com on Monday.

In a recent ABC primetime special, Swayze, 56, denied that he was on his deathbed but said he may have only two years to live.”I’d say five years is pretty wishful thinking,” said The Beast actor, who revealed he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer last year. “Two years seems likely if you’re going to believe statistics.

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