Yes, he ended up having the surgery, but he wasted a crucial nine months on alternative medicine first. Here's a CNN article from 2008: http://money.cnn.com/20

Yes, he ended up having the surgery, but he wasted a crucial nine months on alternative medicine first. Here's a CNN article from 2008: http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f... "to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided [...] Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet. [...] For nine months Jobs pursued this approach [...] In the end, Jobs had the surgery, on Saturday, July 31, 2004"