Thursday, October 20, 2011

How Steve Jobs delayed surgery that might have saved him

Steve Jobs initially turned down surgery for the cancer that eventually killed him, choosing to go with alternative medicine, his official biographer told the Toronto Globe and Mail.

In an interview with the CBS TV show 60 Minutes airing Sunday, Walter Isaacson explains how the Apple co-founder had one of the rare slow-growing pancreatic cancers that might have been cured with early surgery. Instead, Mr. Isaacson says, Mr. Jobs tried to treat it first with diet and “spiritualists,” waiting nine months to get the surgery.

“Soon everybody is telling him, ‘Quit trying to treat it with all these herbs and vegetables and things, just got operated on,’” explained Mr. Isaacson, who conducted 40 interviews with Mr. Jobs, who was 56 years old when he died earlier this month...

Read more at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/steve-jobs-delayed-surgery-that-might-have-saved-him-biographer/article2208417/

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