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Originally Posted by Vintage Racer
Steve Jobs had carcinoma of the pancreas. The tumors hide in the head of the pancreas and get into the bile ducts. Patients rarely survive long. Do a search.
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Jobs cancer is different from the typical, very, very deadly "garden variety" pancreatic cancer.
Jobs was treated for a rare type of pancreatic cancer called an islet-cell, or neuroendocrine, tumour. Such tumours can be benign or malignant, but they usually grow slowly and are far less deadly than most pancreatic tumours.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 37,680 Americans get pancreatic cancer each year, but few get islet-cell tumours of the kind Jobs had. The tumours are easily removed surgically but recur in roughly half of patients, said Dr. Roderich Schwarz, a cancer surgeon at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas.
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