he hasn't got much longer to live if this is true.. surprised he doesn't retire..
What absolute crap. There is no reason why Steve won't live for a long time, there is obviously a risk that things will not work but there is a very good chance he will be fine.
People can talk rubbish about things they have no idea.
My regards to Mr. Jobs and his family. With that said this is a serious matter and his life expectancy has been dramatically shortened. Working in the medical field this is no light matter. Most operations as such are prolonging the enivitable. Some only survive 8 years at best. Apple is going to have to imagine life without Steve and Steve is going to have to decide just how much longer he will hold his postion because the stress and work method he lives by is only taxing his beaten body.
But there is one more thing... I have a new liver!
Seriously though, hang in there Steve, we miss you!
The liver transplant was the surprise.tbh i wasnt that surprised, his health was failing - he needed time off to do stuff.. i guess i didnt think that stuff would be an operation but.. (not that smart haha)
Yes, but the CAUSE of this liver transplant (metastatic pancreatic cancer) has an extremely poor prognosis even with a pancreaticoduodenectomy (5 year all-cause mortality >95%). In the case of metastatic disease, I would expect that mortality would be even greater. Pancreatic cancer is hard to find, difficult to treat and aggressive. I wish him the best.
I wish you were right, but liver transplant is a very temporary solution, he will be needing another liver 5 years from now, maybe 6 or 7 years. But this is VERY bad news, I almost think he should not come back to apple and really enjoy his fortune, see the world.
Best wishes to SJ, here's to hoping we see the first human to live 30 years with a liver transplant.
Here is the problem. We don't know the exact type of pancreatic cancer he has. Assuming it has spread to his liver as assumed in this case it may well have seeded many of his other organs. Assuming the physicians on his case know what they are doing there would be a reason for this transplant when people going through fulminant hepatitis, liver toxicity, or cirrhosis would get the transplant first rather than someone with metastatic pancreatic cancer which is something, in most cases, isn't even treated except for palliative care.
So without knowing the specifics of his case I don't think we can say how long he will survive. Assuming there was no cancer spreading beyond his liver perhaps his chances of survival aren't as bad as one would think based on a normal pancreatic cancer that spreads everywhere before diagnosis.
Very temporary? Jobs has survived for two months which means that he has gotten past the highest risk period of transplantation (acute rejection). Assuming he keeps up on his antirejection medications and doesn't die of an infection he could live for a long time. Everyone with transplant runs the risk of chronic rejection (something that is hard to prevent) and infection (something every person with a transplant receives prophylactic antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals against) but it's certainly not an immediate death sentence. Many people (more than 50%) survive 10 years post transplant.
You have to remember that the statistics are including many people with other conditions such as chronic hepatitis viruses B/C, HIV, and alcohol abuse. These things don't go away just because you get a new liver. So for individuals with fewer co-morbid conditions like these survival can be better assuming no rejection takes place. We don't know what has happened with his cancer, but that is the primary determinant of his survival.
It's all about karma since SJ is Buddhist. He may have deprived someone in Tennessee who's seriously in need of a liver transplant by jumping the queue. Hope he gets better. But don't think he could escape the fate of karma eventually. He needs to be a better person.
Yes, but the CAUSE of this liver transplant (metastatic pancreatic cancer) has an extremely poor prognosis even with a pancreaticoduodenectomy (5 year all-cause mortality >95%). In the case of metastatic disease, I would expect that mortality would be even greater. Pancreatic cancer is hard to find, difficult to treat and aggressive. I wish him the best.