[mistersquid]

> > the character chose alternative therapies before finally trying conventional medicine, but it was too late & she lost her life.

> Isn't this the same story as Steve Jobs?

While much of the news media characterized Jobs' death as partly due to conventional cancer treatment coming too late, such a view is reductive given the nature of Jobs' "rare form of pancreatic cancer, called an islet cell tumor or gasteroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (GEP-NET)" [0].

Not much conventional medical literature exists regarding the treatment of GEP-NETs (presumably due to their rarity) and Jobs and his care providers had to make choices without much evidence to guide them. Quoting from the above-cited article:

> [W]hat many journalists failed to note is that the evidence supporting any specific conventional treatment approach (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy) for GEP-NETs comprises a slim literature, and the evidence base for use of CAM [complementary and alternative medical] therapeutic approaches for GEP-NETs is virtually non-existent. After a delay of nine months after diagnosis, in 2004, Jobs opted for surgery. He died 7 years later. [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924574/