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A little pedantic but I want to fix something. I noticed in the first sentence that he states Von Nuemann died of bone cancer. This is incorrect. His cancer wa
by Herodotus38 5y ago
A little pedantic but I want to fix something. I noticed in the first sentence that he states Von Nuemann died of bone cancer. This is incorrect. His cancer was first found in his collarbone, and it was a metastatic lesion. They biopsied it and various sources I've read have stated the primary cancer was pancreatic or prostate. This means that it would have been an undifferentiated adenocarcinoma. This means the cancer has evolved to the point where you can recognize some aspects of it, but it has shed a lot of the characteristics of its cell of origin. It could also have been a cholangiocarcinoma or possible gastric cancer, hepatic, etc...
The term bone cancer refers to things like osteosarcomas, these usually occur in children.
Not trying to say the rest of the article is bad, but when I see something like this I want to point it out.
Previous biographies I've read have always reported pancreatic cancer, which is what I was going to originally type, but according to wikipedia there are some different sources listed.
- paulpauper 5y agoInteresting insight
- Herodotus38 5y agoThanks. Who knows, maybe this article will be cited by others in the future, and it will be one more piece of misinformation. The fight never stops.