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After passing along word of the new CureConnieAndPatrick.com Web site devoted to getting the word out about a possible "cure" for pancreatic cancer — and the site's unauthorized use of the disease's most famous afflictee — Defamer heard from Patrick Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf. The news didn't sound terribly good: "Patrick is not aware of this Web site, and he has no association with it or the medication it advertises," she told us. "He is not affiliated with the woman from the site; Patrick had no knowledge of her." So even if it's a good cause, would Swayze align himself with what essentially amounts to a campaign against a pharmaceutical manufacturer?

Wolf declined comment, but we made a few more phone calls around the Swayze camp to see if a cease-and-desist order might be in the works to bring Swayze's likeness — and thus pretty much the entire site — off the Web. Another source close to the situation confirmed it's an option; the person would not say, however, if Swayze's reps had yet contacted the Loughman family, who launched the campaign this morning with a news conference in Indianapolis.

It's a delicate situation, to be sure, and we should know more tomorrow. You know where to find us if you hear anything in the meantime.

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