Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004, according to people who are monitoring his illness.
Patients with Jobs’s condition can survive for 20 years or more from the time of their original cancer diagnosis, and the surgery often gives good results, said Steven Brower, professor and chairman of surgery at Mercer University School of Medicine in Savannah, Georgia. Brower hasn’t treated Jobs and doesn’t know details of his condition.
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to access Dealbreaker
too pate didnt read
I’ll sell a lobe of mine for $5 mil., lightly used, original condition….
Why is the mayor commenting on jobs?
You know, Apple tried to tamp this stuff down and Gizmodo got hell for writing about it. Now Jobs needs a liver transplant. I feel terribly that he is ill, but pretending something ain’t so when you have employees and shareholders only makes the rumor mill work overtime.
He’ll just ruin the new one by binge drinking more of the Apple koolaid.
@5 – Gold.
Kidney OK but liver, that’s some serious shit. Stick a fork in the guy he’s cooked.
Too black, couldn’t spot
Does that come with some fava beans and a nice chianti?
Who said Jobs couldn’t de-liver?
Too hepatic, couldn’t detoxify
I’d give one of my kidneys for a stint at the TARP trough.
Sorry Stevie. Never liked you or your company but you don’t deserve this. No one does.
too liver, don’t even know er
I hopped up and said, “I don’t know. Do you want to get something delivered?”
She’s like, “Why would I want to eat liver? I don’t even like liver.”
I’m like, “No, I said delivered.”
She’s like, “I heard you say liver.”
I’m like, “I should know what I said.”
She’s like, “Whatever. I just don’t want any liver.”
David Crosby got a liver transplant in 1995. Never looked thin, that I recall.
so jim goldman gets skewered for not talking about the rumors he heard from people who knew jobs and now bloomberg goes the opposite end and actively solicits pure speculation from a doctor who has not even seen jobs. and everyone now takes this as pure fact.
Too turtleneck, couldn’t mock…
Without Steve, who will yell and berate the Apple employees?
@15 But David Crosby always had a MASSIVE case of the munchies to keep him well-fed.
an iLiver will only last so long
Pancreatic cancer is bad shit, no one lives 20 years with that illness.
From Wikipedia:
Patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer typically have a poor prognosis partly because the cancer usually causes no symptoms early on, leading to locally advanced or metastatic disease at time of diagnosis.
Median survival from diagnosis is around 3 to 6 months; 5-year survival is less than 5%.
21: you are retarded. jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer which was highly treatable but apparently he put off treatment for some time.
i hope Jobs gets better. i wouldn’t wish such a condition on anyone.
There is more than one type of pancreatic cancer or rather more than one type of tumor affecting the pancreas. See excerpt from Wikipedia below…
Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor of the pancreas. Each year in the United States, about 37,680 individuals are diagnosed with this condition and 34,290 die from the disease. In Europe more than 60,000 are diagnosed each year. 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.[1] About 95 percent[citation needed] of pancreatic tumors are adenocarcinomas (M8140/3). The remaining 5 percent include other tumors of the exocrine pancreas (e.g., serous cystadenomas), acinar cell cancers, and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (such as insulinomas, M8150/1, M8150/3). These tumors have a completely different diagnostic and therapeutic profile, and generally a more favorable prognosis.[1]
Some cancer treatments are not organ specific so other organs can be damaged along with the treatment for the pancreas.