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There are lots of other tumours that are just as deadly as pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Steve Jobs died of a pancreatic neuroendocrine Tumour. It should not be g

by gww 3y ago

There are lots of other tumours that are just as deadly as pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Steve Jobs died of a pancreatic neuroendocrine Tumour. It should not be grouped with pancreatic adenocarcinoma. The former is approximately 7-8% of all pancreatic tumors and has a much better prognosis of almost 90% at 5 years if it's caught early. In Jobs case it was. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma has a dismal prognosis of <10% at 5 years. Edit. My Pancreatic cancer knowledge is a bit outdated but I recall type 2 diabetes being a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. I believe in some cases pancreatic cancer can cause diabetes because of the damage it does to the pancreas.

01100011 3y ago
Yep. Ex-wife has neuroendocrine carcinoid tumors in her liver and pancreas, with the main tumor removed from her lung aroun 18-19 years of age. Unless your tumors are functional(i.e. they are neuroendocrine tissue and can secrete hormones) or rapidly growing, it's not a very severe disease and there are treatments available. After 6 years of monitoring by a leading oncologist, she was told she would live a long life and die of something else. That doesn't stop me from needing to pay her huge amounts of money for alimony, but it is what it is. Steve Jobs died because he was an idiot who tried quack therapies.