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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
RIP to steve.
One thing that is worrying from a medical point of view is that Steve had unlimited funds to fight Pancreatic cancer, and it's is rumored that he had a partial pancreatic transplant, which is right at the cutting edge of transplant technology. If he couldn't beat it, then I don't know what will? |
Almost all pancreatic cancer is fatal, often in less than a year. Jobs had a rare form, an islet cell neuroendicrine tumor, that is much less aggressive and much more treatable than most kinds, especially if it is caught as early as his was. There is some speculation that he may have lived significantly longer if he had chosen ordinary tumor removal surgery immediately after being diagnosed, rather than trying an "alternative" treatment for the first nine months. The tumor may have grown during that period, ultimately making it harder to treat:
| quote: | I’m sad that today I’m adding a slide to one of my live presentations, adding Steve Jobs to the list of famous people who died treating terminal diseases with woo rather than with medicine.
Seven or eight years ago, the news broke that Steve Jobs had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but considering it a private matter, he delayed in informing Apple’s board, and Apple’s board delayed in informing the shareholders. So what. The only delay that really mattered was that Steve, it turned out, had been treating his pancreatic cancer with a special diet and other alternative therapies, prescribed by his naturopath.
Most pancreatic cancers are aggressive and always terminal, but Steve was lucky (if you can call it that) and had a rare form called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which is actually quite treatable with excellent survival rates — if caught soon enough. The median survival is about a decade, but it depends on how soon it’s removed surgically. Steve caught his very early, and should have expected to survive much longer than a decade. Unfortunately Steve relied on a naturopathic diet instead of early surgery. There is no evidence that diet has any effect on islet cell carcinoma. As he dieted for nine months, the tumor progressed, and took him from the high end to the low end of the survival rate.
Eventually it became clear to all involved that his alternative therapy wasn’t working, and from then on, by all accounts, Steve aggressively threw money at the best that medical science could offer. But it was too late. He had a Whipple procedure. He had a liver transplant. And then he died, all too young. |
Steve Jobs succumbs to alternative medicine
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