Actually, according to the the story that Isaacson and others familiar with the situation told, it's fairly certain that he would have made a full recovery. Of

Actually, according to the the story that Isaacson and others familiar with the situation told, it's fairly certain that he would have made a full recovery. Of course it's possible that he would have died by now due to other causes - his plane could have crashed etc - but he would not have died as a result of cancer. In this case, his belief in alternative medicine killed him.