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I have heard variations on this many times but never a definitive expert assertion of its truth rooted in confirmed facts. Did he forego cure, or was he merely

by fhsm 5y ago

I have heard variations on this many times but never a definitive expert assertion of its truth rooted in confirmed facts. Did he forego cure, or was he merely quirky and uncured as two independent truths? A bit of searching did not bring me complete clarity. - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-cancer-treatment-regrets/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-j... - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/ - https://www.livescience.com/16551-steve-jobs-alternative-medicine-pancreatic-cancer-treatment.html https://www.livescience.com/16551-steve-jobs-alternative-med... The undisputed fact of his liver transplant in TN suggests a sophisticated deployment of his considerable means to me. Given this it seems to me that he may have been as described above at the time of diagnosis but he probably was not by the time of transplantation.

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago
According to his biography, he did initially try to cure his cancer by going fruitarian. Obviously, the cancer got worse instead of better, and he ended up needing a transplant. I suspect (and I have nothing to go off of other than his biography) that he didn't actually completely expect the fruit diet to work, and may have simply believed that if it was his time to go, it was his time to go, but his wife may have eventually talked some sense into him. In America, normal humans can only be on a transplant list for their home state, but a few states also accept out-of-state folks who can travel to the state within X hours. This was obviously designed for people who live right on the border in a neighboring state, but Jobs was able to use his private jet to argue that he should be on the transplant lists for basically every state that accepts out-of-state people. The main point is that it's possible he took an organ from someone in TN, because he himself let his own cancer progress beyond the point of salvaging the organ.
- sixQuarks 5y ago
  Steve Jobs died from pancreatic cancer. He received a liver transplant, which is not related to that cancer.
  - computerex 5y ago
    His cancer was metastatic, meaning it spread to other parts of his body. That happens when a cancer is left untreated.
    - fastball 5y ago
      It also happens when a cancer is treated.
  - mlyle 5y ago
    Other than the reason he needed a liver transplant was because of evidence that the cancer had spread to his liver but not elsewhere...

by fhsm 5y ago

rrrrrrrrrrrryan 5y ago

According to his biography, he did initially try to cure his cancer by going fruitarian. Obviously, the cancer got worse instead of better, and he ended up needing a transplant. I suspect (and I have nothing to go off of other than his biography) that he didn't actually completely expect the fruit diet to work, and may have simply believed that if it was his time to go, it was his time to go, but his wife may have eventually talked some sense into him. In America, normal humans can only be on a transplant list for their home state, but a few states also accept out-of-state folks who can travel to the state within X hours. This was obviously designed for people who live right on the border in a neighboring state, but Jobs was able to use his private jet to argue that he should be on the transplant lists for basically every state that accepts out-of-state people. The main point is that it's possible he took an organ from someone in TN, because he himself let his own cancer progress beyond the point of salvaging the organ.

sixQuarks 5y ago
Steve Jobs died from pancreatic cancer. He received a liver transplant, which is not related to that cancer.
- computerex 5y ago
  His cancer was metastatic, meaning it spread to other parts of his body. That happens when a cancer is left untreated.
  - fastball 5y ago
    It also happens when a cancer is treated.
- mlyle 5y ago
  Other than the reason he needed a liver transplant was because of evidence that the cancer had spread to his liver but not elsewhere...