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by SoftTalker 1343 days ago
Jobs had pancreatic cancer. His holistic approach to dealing with it notwithstanding, that diagnosis is usually a death sentence no matter what you do.
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Generally speaking, yes. Practically, Jobs cancer was of the rare but kind of treatable kind. Unless, of course, you forgo surgery, chemo and radio therapy.

Again, not blaming Jobs for his decisions, cancer is a scary thing. Just pointing out the benefit of eering on the side of aggressiveness when it comes to treatment.

As far as I know, he had a type of (neuroendocrine?) pancreatic cancer that had a much better prognosis than other types.