re: Interesting hoax message going around about cancer

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The type of cancer he had has an exceedingly low survival rate, regardless of the method of care.

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This is false. Steve Jobs did not have adenocarcinoma of the pancreas, the type of cancer you are referring to with an exceedingly low survival rate. He had an islet-cell neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but very treatable form of cancer. They are often benign and the ones that are malignant like his grow very slowly with no early metastasis. It is believed around one in a hundred people live their entire adult lives with tiny benign neuroendocrine pancreas tumors. The five year survival rate for malignant ones is almost 60%, compared to less than 3% for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.

At the stage Jobs' was found at, the five and ten year survival rates are both over 70%.

He was diagnosed in 2003, sought alternative treatment for 9 months while getting worse and then turned to modern medicine which fought to give him another 8 years. By the time he went back to his doctors, his five year survival rate had been cut in half.

Had the man had a whipple procedure when diagnosed, he'd almost certainly be with us today.

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We drop dollars in buckets to find a cure, instead we should be focusing on changing the way we live. The food industry is criminal, the way stress ourselves to work-to-live is unnecessary, and the toxic elements we introduce to ourselves thanks to a cultural system that doesn't value the planet all play huge roles in causing cancer.

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While you are once again being overly dramatic, yes we do need to focus on diet. I know of no doctor who would say otherwise.