Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.
Patients with Jobs’s condition can survive for 20 years or more from the time of their original cancer diagnosis, and the surgery often gives good results, said Steven Brower, professor and chairman of surgery at Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia. Brower hasn’t treated Jobs and doesn’t know details of his condition.
Jobs, who appeared increasingly thin and frail throughout 2008, hasn’t provided details about his condition. In a statement released Jan. 5, Jobs said he was suffering from a “hormone imbalance” and that the remedy for his weight loss was “relatively simple.” On Jan. 14, he announced that he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues were “more complex” than he originally thought.
In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t comment further on his health.
# 20: Dude, pay attention. You are linking to a site that describes a wrong condition. This is what Jobs had:
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/pancreatic-islet-cell-tumor/overview.html
This is very different from ADENOCARCINOMA
OF THE PANCREAS (classic pancreatic cancer). MD? I am living with the same condition, so my interest is a bit more personal than that.
# 21 Proud Alien said, “Dude, pay attention. You are linking to a site that describes a wrong condition. This is what Jobs had:”
Actually, I’ve seen major news sites that claim it’s pancreatic cancer. Do you have a link to where Jobs says it isn’t? I couldn’t find one.
Stubborn lad, aren’t you? While many things about his health are a mystery, there is no disagreement about the fact that originally he had a non-functioning islet cell tumor. Though it is often called “pancreatic cancer”, in strict medical terms it’s not even a cancer (it is a type of carcinoma, a much slower-growing tumor). Unlike its evil cousin, NET has a much better prognosis. A mere fact that Jobs is past or almost at his 5-year mark since the original diagnosis, is an indirect proof of that. I bet you Patrick Swayze would love to have Steve’s odds.
#18 Who’s wishing ill to your God? Are you so pathetic that are gloating by makinga comparison between you and your god by saying you have the same disease? And have the cachet to call us ill informed? Where do you get the info on his real condition?
Bah!
#24: Huh?
#25 Main Entry: ca·chet
Pronunciation:
\ka-ˈshā\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French, from cacher
Date:
circa 1639
2 a: a characteristic feature or quality conferring prestige
Yo, amigo, do you yourself know what the fukc you are trying to say? I remember seeing your posts before, but, frankly, I wasn’t aware of the utter level of intellectual impediment you possess. As they say, think before you speak, pal.
# 23 Proud Alien said, “Stubborn lad, aren’t you?”
So, where’s your source saying that it isn’t “pancreatic cancer”? … Waiting…