Comments on: Jobs Lived 8 Years with Pancreatic Cancer, Steinman for 4, But It Was Steinman Who Beat the Odds. Here’s Why.

By: stan m

stan m — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:23:07 +0000

pancreatic cancer is usually caused by diabettes and is curable if found before symptoms.

By: Susan Courtnay

Susan Courtnay — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:26:55 +0000

The difference in survival for people with different forms of pancreatic cancer is not news. But it disturbs me that the cancers that they “rich” have get more attention, and different treatment, than the rest of us. A liver transplant for someone with metastatic cancer of any kind is such a waste of time, money and resources it should be a crime. None of the patients I have ever cared for with liver metastasis from any type of cancer would have been approved for a transplant. I hope Mr. Jobs paid for it out of his own pocket, not his insurance company! The reason so much more money “seems” to be going toward breast and colon cancer is that these are two very common cancers that affects hundreds of thousands of people each year and are curable diseases. Pancreatic cancer, even though it is tragic, is still a fairly rare disease with no real cure in sight. I am sympathetic to people with this disease, but economics do have a place in medicine! Susan, oncology nurse of 22 years.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:57:29 +0000

I hope Steve Jobs wife uses some of his fortune for reshearch toward a cure of this deadly cancer. My husband died within months of it also. He was only 49 years old.

By: connie

connie — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:22:44 +0000

Hope more money goes into research into this deadly disease. Seems that all the money is going to brest and colon cancers.. Everybody needs help to fight this awful disease.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:53:40 +0000

God bless the researchers who are studying this illness. My mother died of it (in months, not years).

By: Ikto

Ikto — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:59:48 +0000

Jobs also practiced “alternative medicine” for several months before following his doctor’s recommendations. That wasted time may have cost him his life.

By: doloreskeo

doloreskeo — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:51:08 +0000

Pancreatic cancer is the most deadly cancer with a survival rate of just 6 percent. http://bit.ly/reaflS

By: ursusmaritimus

ursusmaritimus — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:55:37 +0000

If people hang out in heaven with people based on what they die from Steve and Patrick Swayze just formed the duo Dirty Jobs.

By: Haymoon

Haymoon — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:50:48 +0000

I wonder what kind of pancreatic cancer the late Brian Lenihan, Irish Minister for Finance had?