3 ms·
I seem to remember a turtleneck guy that got felled by cancer. He was running a fruit company, perhaps there isn't that much money in fruits afterall.
by pacala 7y ago
I seem to remember a turtleneck guy that got felled by cancer. He was running a fruit company, perhaps there isn't that much money in fruits afterall.
- willvarfar 7y agoAnd he is infamous for refusing medical treatment until it was too late. For months he tried alternative treatments, before saying he regretted it.
- moralestapia 7y agoAnd it's been almost 10 years since that.
- Reason077 7y agoThe treatment you refer to was a “whipple” procedure, or pancreaticoduodenectomy. A very invasive procedure that has significant detrimental effects on your quality of life, and still doesn’t guarantee long-term survival. A tough call for even the most rational of patients.
- JohnJamesRambo 7y ago>Barrie R. Cassileth, the chief of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's integrative medicine department,[172] said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life.... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable.... He essentially committed suicide." I’m not sure it is that tough of a call.
- melling 7y agoSteve spent $100,000 to decode his DNA: https://www.google.com/amp/s/appleinsider.com/articles/11/10/21/steve_jobs_had_his_dna_sequenced_for_100k_to_fight_cancer/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/appleinsider.com/articles/11/10... Billionaires would probably spend quite a bit of money if they knew they might get a disease in 20 years. Bill Gates is funding Alzheimers research. His dad has it.
- C14L 7y agoTurtleneck guy would have survived easily. But he started to trink herbal tea to cure his cancer. Surprisingly, it didn't work.