[anonymouslambda]

There was an oncologist speculating on Quora that Jobs had to have the Whipple because he waited so long and the cancer presumably spread. Had he acted promptly it would have been a much less complicated surgery.

To each his own though -- whatever drove Jobs to seek alternative medicine first is part and parcel of the personality that gave us all he did.

[tptacek]

He had to have the Whipple because of where his tumor was located (the head, not the tail, of his pancreas).