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To think he would've lived if he didn't act like a total nutcase and rely on alternative medicine...
Honestly crazy to me. Access to the best doctors and medicine in the world with no worries about money. Easy curable disease and yet you are so fucking high on yourself and your ways you die from it.
I guess money won't fix arrogance mixed with stupidity. Such a shame...
Isn't pancreatic cancer one of the lowest survival rate cancers?
Edit: thank you for teaching me Lemmy!
He was diagnosed with insulinoma, which unlike other pancreatic cancers, is curable and can be treated with surgery. Doctors recommended an early operation but Mr Jobs could not be persuaded to stop his pursuit of alternative remedies.
Mr Jobs went public about his cancer in 2004 after finally agreeing to surgery that year, by which time the cancer had spread.
He realised the delay had been a mistake and told his biographer Walter Isaacson: "I should have gotten it earlier."
He survived 8 years with it though, whilst refusing normal medical attention. Given that, had he dealt with it in the first or even second year he'd have probably had a good shot at surviving.