10-30-2011, 11:43 PM
IIRC, median survival 5-6 years, he got 8.
Much better than 'traditional' pancreatic cancer, but having the surgery earlier doesn't necessarily extend the above (could already have spread to the liver)
Jobs already had intestinal issues so severe he had to have multiple abdominal scans to figure out what was the problem.
"...it's unlikely that a mere nine months took Jobs 'from the high end to the low end of the survival rate,' as Dunning puts it.
That's just not how insulinomas usually behave from a biological standpoint.
They're too indolent, and that's not even taking into account issues of lead time bias and other confounding factors that would make comparisons of operating early versus operating later not as straightforward as one might think."
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/1...nd_alt.php
Much better than 'traditional' pancreatic cancer, but having the surgery earlier doesn't necessarily extend the above (could already have spread to the liver)
Jobs already had intestinal issues so severe he had to have multiple abdominal scans to figure out what was the problem.
"...it's unlikely that a mere nine months took Jobs 'from the high end to the low end of the survival rate,' as Dunning puts it.
That's just not how insulinomas usually behave from a biological standpoint.
They're too indolent, and that's not even taking into account issues of lead time bias and other confounding factors that would make comparisons of operating early versus operating later not as straightforward as one might think."
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/1...nd_alt.php
Jimmypoo wrote:
Reading that just makes me all the more angry at such a smart man - deciding to delay the very surgery
that would have him here today, instead of gone today. Those around him deserved that far more than
the rest of us, who merely idolize from afar.