Sanjivan - The Organ Donation Blog

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.

Living Donors make up almost 50% of all the donations in the U.S. Even though the term - “living donors” sounds simple, I would like to go little more in detail about what it means and how it means to you.

You and I can donate some of our organs and still remain healthy and live a long life. Not only we live healthy and long, we also help another person live long by donating our organ/tissue.

The following organs can be donated by living donors - kidney, liver, lung, intestine, pancreas.

I will go more in to details in the following days to come. If you have any questions meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to write a comment and I will surely respond to them.

The following organs can be donated.

• Heart
• Kidneys
• Liver
• Lungs
• Pancreas
• Small Intestine