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His 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
by baldfat 6y ago
His 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.