Steve Jobs and Pancreatic Cancer
It is in the news today that Steve Jobs of Apple fame has been going through some hormone imbalance and hence he has become thin. Blogs and news outlets all around the world were predicting a really bad news but Apple put out a letter from Steve that quelled those rumors.
I missed writing about Pancreatic Cancer before and I thought this may be an appropriate time. Each year almost 40,000 people in the U.S get affected by Pancreatic Cancer. The real bad part is most of these people die from the disease. The most common form of Pancreatic Cancer is called Adenocarcinoma and it carries a life expectancy of about a year or so. Fortunately Steve Jobs had an another form of Pancreatic Cancer called Neuroendocrine also called as islet cell tumors. These tumors can be surgically removed and does not involve any radiation or chemotheraphy.
And about Steve’s hormone imbalance - he is getting treatment for that and should be getting fatter by next Spring.