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Jobs had an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a rare type of pancreatic cancer. He decided to delay surgical treatment in favor of dietary treatment presumably
by nullc 3y ago
Jobs had an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a rare type of pancreatic cancer.
He decided to delay surgical treatment in favor of dietary treatment presumably because at the time there was little evidence for the effectiveness of surgical treatment (and obviously plenty of risk connected to it).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/
- selimthegrim 3y agoThis gets mentioned in the angriest (rightly so) obituary-cum-book review I have ever seen written about anyone ever. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUK144083343120120222 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUK144083343120120222 (the biopsy line was originally after the quote from the wife abut not opening his body yet)
- CoastalCoder 3y agoGood grief, you're right. Any idea why the author was so harsh?
- noSyncCloud 3y agoGreat article, thanks for sharing. Not nearly enough iconoclasts on HN sometimes – a good take-down is well appreciated.
- turtleyacht 3y agoThank-you for that. > a policy prohibiting employees from talking to one another about any topic about which both parties have not yet been officially "disclosed"--Distortionspeak for "cleared to discuss"--by a higher authority. The most modern of which I've seen so far is Conjecture's infohazard policy: https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/Gs29k3beHiqWFZqnn/conjecture-internal-infohazard-policy https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/Gs29k3beHiqWFZqnn/conje... I can't find the HN submission anymore.