Saginaw Bay Area - Michigan | Hilltop Husker - 7/14/2025 07:54
Odds are he wouldn't have died. I said I didnt want to talk about his death any longer.
Bless your heart.
Jobs was diagnosed in 2003. He died in 2011. His cancer was extremely rare. 1% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the time were of the variant he had.
Interesting tidbit: Pancreatic cancer is one of the faster spreading cancers; only about 4 percent of patients can expect to survive five years after their diagnosis.
96 out of 100 die within 5 years of diagnosis. He made it almost twice that long.
In 2009 he had a liver transplant. How much did that impact his early demise? The general prognosis is that the immune suppression drug regimen he was placed on after the liver transplant accelerated his cancer and lead to his death, the final straw per se.
Jobs also went the traditional surgery route on his pancreatic cancer just 9 months after diagnosis. He did not skip "traditional medicine".
During that 9 month period before surgery, he did try alternatives, which he had done all of his life. He was a strong believer in juice cleanses and similar options. In his opinion they had done well for him over the years, so it would be an obvious choice for actions for him to take with that prognosis.
To imply he had forgone traditional methods and that non-conventional meds killed him early is simply ludicrous and uninformed.
Did Jobs ultimately regret delaying the surgery by 9 months? Yes, he did, though regret is not necessarily a term he would use. It would be an obvious position for him as it was after the fact that the alternatives did not work and also after the surgery that also did not [completely] work, so he had hindsight. Same as with his business practices, did he realize a specific business decision could have been more optimal if done differently in hindsight - yes and his actions showed the same over his career.
So the facts are, alternative medicine did not lead to Job's death at 56 and possibly may have helped him beat the odds and extend his life by 5 or so years.
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This Dr. is wonderful on CANCER
