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>>potentially better medicine Jobs refused conventional treatment to treat his cancer until it was too late. He placed heavy emphasis on oriental mysticism.
by godelmachine 6y ago
>>potentially better medicine
Jobs refused conventional treatment to treat his cancer until it was too late. He placed heavy emphasis on oriental mysticism.
- ogre_codes 6y agoThere is a lot of conjecture about Jobs death, I try to avoid delving into speculation too much.
- FreeFull 6y agoWhile that's true, pancreatic cancer is nasty enough that even with prompt treatment, there was a good chance he'd succumb to it anyway, although he'd definitely have way better chances.
- baldfat 6y agoHis cancer was the least deadly of the cancers and with treatment he would have lived much longer. My mom had stage one pancreatic cancer 4 years ago and she is still alive today and cancer free for over four years. So it is possible.
- Beldin 6y agoThere's pancreatic cancer and cancer of the pancreas. (There might be more, i know about these two). The difference in life expectancy is staggering. One is basically starting the clock (in months to a handful of years), with the other, recovery is possible.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoPancreatic cancer essentially forms a barrier around the cancer that prevents drugs from reaching the tumors as I understood layman's descriptions of the disease when one of my friends died of it. I think there was some initial success in attaching vitamin d to some drugs to bypass the "firewall", but it was still hard.
- microtherion 6y agoFWIW, Jobs was diagnosed in 2003, so he lived another 8 years after his initial diagnosis.
- jonny_eh 6y agoWhich says to me that he was a good candidate for real treatment.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoYeah, I'm not sure how such an intelligent person could get suckered in by that mumbo jumbo. I guess one can be a savante in some things and dumb as a rock at others.
- dralley 6y agoThe specific kind of pancreatic cancer that Jobs had was not very aggressive, unlike the majority of pancreatic cancers.
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- projektfu 6y agoIIRC, he had insulinoma, which is a rather slow cancer. I’m not sure if treatment beyond surgery would have prolonged his life, as 10 year survival is around 30%. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the fast killer.