Just How Dire Steve's Condition Is

[GTaudiophile]

Enjoy the read!

Each year in the United States, about 37,680 individuals are diagnosed with this condition and 34,290 die from the disease. Depending on the extent of the tumor at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with less than 5 percent of those diagnosed still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission still extremely rare.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Enjoy the read!

Each year in the United States, about 37,680 individuals are diagnosed with this condition and 34,290 die from the disease. Depending on the extent of the tumor at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with less than 5 percent of those diagnosed still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission still extremely rare.

Problem with that is that it is not the type of pancreatic cancer Job's had.

Jobs announced in 2004 that he had undergone successful surgery to treat a very rare form of pancreatic cancer ? an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. The cancer is easily cured if diagnosed early. Jobs did not have a deadlier and more common form of pancreatic cancer called adenocarcinoma.

From here.

 

[Saga]

I'm pretty sure the gobs of money at his disposal is easily the key factor in where he ends up on that spectrum of survivors.

 

[sonambulo]

Originally posted by: Saga
I'm pretty sure the gobs of money at his disposal is easily the key factor in where he ends up on that spectrum of survivors.

Voted off in the first round for being such an egomaniac so early.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Saga
I'm pretty sure the gobs of money at his disposal is easily the key factor in where he ends up on that spectrum of survivors.

Doesn't matter. Jobs is into hippy-dippy new-age holistic healing, meaning he's probably one of the people most likely to die, despite having essentially unlimited money.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Saga
I'm pretty sure the gobs of money at his disposal is easily the key factor in where he ends up on that spectrum of survivors.

Doesn't matter. Jobs is into hippy-dippy new-age holistic healing, meaning he's probably one of the people most likely to die, despite having essentially unlimited money.

This just in - drinking carrots doesn't actually cure cancer. Details at 11.

 

[nakedfrog]

I just dropped in to see what condition his condition was in.

 

[LS8]

Originally posted by: Martin

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca

Originally posted by: Saga
I'm pretty sure the gobs of money at his disposal is easily the key factor in where he ends up on that spectrum of survivors.

Doesn't matter. Jobs is into hippy-dippy new-age holistic healing, meaning he's probably one of the people most likely to die, despite having essentially unlimited money.

This just in - drinking carrots doesn't actually cure cancer. Details at 11.

A Jim Gaffigan quote comes to mind:

"We're going to take the hundreds of years of medical knowledge and throw it out the window and we're gonna wing it!"

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I just dropped in to see what condition his condition was in.

:thumbsup: explained

 

[dquan97]

Time to short AAPL!

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: dquan97
Time to short AAPL!

When, yesterday?

 

[nageov3t]

/it's not a tumor

or is it? I thought the story they were going with was "hormone imbalances"

 

[0roo0roo]

what?

no [steve jobs]new thinnest ever![/steve jobs] apple ceo crack?

i just wonder if he's still on a vegan diet.

 

[brxndxn]

Geez.. you guys are heartless.

Whether you like his vision or not (I do not), you have to admit he is a visionary. It is always sad to see a good leader go.

IMO, he has less than three months.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Just looking at his pictures, I'd guess his cancer has metastasized and he has less than a year left.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: loki8481
/it's not a tumor

or is it? I thought the story they were going with was "hormone imbalances"

They aren't telling us what it is. Originally he had cancer and had a procedure that supposedly removed it and cured him, see Linflas's reply. Since then people have been noting though how skinny he has gotten. He looks almost skeletal. He steadfastly claims that the cancer has not come back but has been rather wishy washy about what's wrong with him. The latest news is as you say that he has a "hormone imbalance" but I have to say that sounds more like a brush off to me. Me thinks it's something much more serious and he just doesn't want the news to effect his beloved Apple stock.

 

[JulesMaximus]

There isn't an instrument developed that could measure my level of interest in this. In fact, the only reason I came in here and posted was because all of you seem to care so much about it.

The day I start caring about the CEO of a corporation (who I don't know personally) dying will be a cold day in hell.

When did CEOs become heros we all worship anyway?

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
There isn't an instrument developed that could measure my level of interest in this. In fact, the only reason I came in here and posted was because all of you seem to care so much about it.

The day I start caring about the CEO of a corporation (who I don't know personally) dying will be a cold day in hell.

When did CEOs become heros we all worship anyway?

When did being interested in a news story / scandle about someone equate with worshipping them? A famous person may be hiding the fact they are dying, yeah I'm sort of interested in that, doesn't mean I like the person. If Bush died tomorrow I'd be extremely interested in the story, doesn't mean I don't hate the man.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: loki8481
/it's not a tumor

or is it? I thought the story they were going with was "hormone imbalances"

iTumour??

 

[DangerAardvark]

Okay, I read the OP. Can I joke about it now?

 

[Passions]

Get ready to buy Apple stock after news of his death. It'll plummet like crazy, easy pickings.

 

[Xylitol]

kind of sad to see that another person, especially one so influential, is going to pass away again from cancer

 

[ICRS]

He is a hormone imblance, not cancer. His cancer is gone. He beat cancer. He will be stronger than ever in a few weeks.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: ICRS
He is a hormone imblance, not cancer. His cancer is gone. He beat cancer. He will be stronger than ever in a few weeks.

Still drunk?

 

[ja1484]

Great.

Now every douchebag fratboy, coffee house faux-intellectual, and suburban fashionista on the planet is going to want their own cancer. In white plastic, of course. Bring on the accessories.