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Steve Jobs Spotted at Stanford Cancer Center

With reputable sources like the 'Radar Online' and 'The National Enquirer', there's no way this is wrong right? I'll hold out for the next post that he's having an alien's baby.

Truthfully, I hope he's healthy and well, but I don't trust these sources as far as I could throw them.
 
bad news...

As a newly graduated doctor in his first year of residency I am by no means a cancer expert but I was suspecting Steve wouldn't have a much time for a while now.

Steve had a Whipple procedure originally for pancreatic cancer in 2004 which already indicated that there was significant spread outside the pancreas. His liver transplant in 2009 to me confirmed that there was already widespread metastasis which in the setting of pancreatic cancer is essentially incurable. Chemotherapy can delay but cannot prevent the inevitable.

I obviously have not read his medical chart and don't know the whole story but things do not look good. I have seen some patients deteriorate really fast in Steve's position. Let's hope he was only at the cancer agency for routine follow-up instead of for issues directly related to his most recent medical leave.
 
Dear media, bloggers, and garbage tabloids.

Please let Mr. Jobs alone during his illness. It's personal and private.

Best wishes to Steve for a fast recovery.
 
Don't pay too much attention to the link to the Daily Mail article. The Daily Mail is a notorious propaganda-pedalling tabloid in the UK who will often publish poorly researched tripe with sensationalist headlines.
 
I wish him all the best

Macrumors should remove the positive and negative feature on this thread as this topic is about person's privacy.
 
I just want to echo the sentiments of everyone here, and wish Steve good luck. Being a young-ish (or so I like to think, anyway!) Mac user, I've never really known a computer industry without Steve Jobs at the centre of it, and I really wish him a speedy recovery so that he can get back to doing what he loves, be it at Apple or in his private life.
 
Pulling for you Steve!!

Hopefully the tabloids will cut him a little slack. I would say I will ban tabloids that exploit him but since I don't read their :mad: anyway...
 
Once you've had cancer it's perfectly normal to continue to get tested and checked out routinely for years. It's no surprise that he'd do this, and with the best doctors available to him (any).
 
I read somewhere else that this was a rumor from the National Enquirer. Is there any chance rumor more substantiated than that? Or is that what this MacRumors post is basing this on?
 
It feels intrusive even to comment on this 'story'. We all so much want it to be not true, yet we feel compelled to recognise that sadly it might be. Human nature means we are fascinated by our collective mortality.

I have few heroes alive and none have achieved anywhere near as much. Steve Jobs has created more than we've dared to imagine possible, and we are better for it. The world is truly a more interesting place with him in it.

Get well soon Steve. Amaze us some more.
 
Here comes the picture..

This is the photo that we are talking about..

Get well Soon Steve..
 

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sedin22 said:
As a newly graduated doctor in his first year of residency I am by no means a cancer expert but I was suspecting Steve wouldn't have a much time for a while now.

Steve had a Whipple procedure originally for pancreatic cancer in 2004 which already indicated that there was significant spread outside the pancreas. His liver transplant in 2009 to me confirmed that there was already widespread metastasis which in the setting of pancreatic cancer is essentially incurable. Chemotherapy can delay but cannot prevent the inevitable.

I obviously have not read his medical chart and don't know the whole story but things do not look good. I have seen some patients deteriorate really fast in Steve's position. Let's hope he was only at the cancer agency for routine follow-up instead of for issues directly related to his most recent medical leave.
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Then please explain how he got a liver? Since you're an expert and all.

There isn't a hospital in the country that would transplate a liver into a patient with a widespread metastasis of pancreatic cancer.
 
I fear he is already gone... did you ever see Weekend at Bernies? We won't find out until after iPad2, new MBPs, and iPhone 5.
 
sedin22 said:
As a newly graduated doctor in his first year of residency I am by no means a cancer expert but I was suspecting Steve wouldn't have a much time for a while now.

Steve had a Whipple procedure originally for pancreatic cancer in 2004 which already indicated that there was significant spread outside the pancreas. His liver transplant in 2009 to me confirmed that there was already widespread metastasis which in the setting of pancreatic cancer is essentially incurable. Chemotherapy can delay but cannot prevent the inevitable.

I obviously have not read his medical chart and don't know the whole story but things do not look good. I have seen some patients deteriorate really fast in Steve's position. Let's hope he was only at the cancer agency for routine follow-up instead of for issues directly related to his most recent medical leave.
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Summary: "I'm only a resident with very little experience and no experience in cancer treatment and I have not seen Mr. Jobs medical chart but ..... I'm going to mention that I recently received an undergraduate degree in medicine so that my opinion will carry more weight and I want to predict that Mr. Jobs is about to bite the bullet".

When you were getting your undergraduate degree in medical school, didn't they teach you to keep your "medical" opinion to yourself when you really don't know what your talking about??!!

Prayers sent to you Steve!! Stay strong!!
 
leave the guy alone

end of life is not easy. quoting the Enquirer here is disgusting. give the guy some privacy. what if he were your father or spouse?
 
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