Steve Jobs of Apple...

tonyj wrote:Steve Jobs survived pancreatic cancer? Pancreatic cancer is usually a game ender with only 15% chance of survival. Unless there is some new advances in treating this disease that increase your survival, he must have doing something right with his diet. Or is it a scenario were they caught it in time. Either way he is one lucky man.

In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.[69] The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very grim; Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.[69] After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, Jobs underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (or "Whipple procedure") in July 2004 that appeared to successfully remove the tumor. Jobs apparently did not require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.