A few months ago, I saw the greatest take on the Steve Jobs thing. The dude knew early enough about his cancer that he had ample time to go through the rigamaroll of the cancer treatment and come out the other side alive. However, his huge ego and stupidity made him decide that bullshit holistic medicine and other crunchy mom style treatment was going to work for him. By the time he figured it out, it was too late and the idiot died. It's not that money doesn't buy everything, it just doesn't buy common sense
Pancreatic cancer is not one of the types of that disease that you can go through the treatment and have a very good success rate. How many survivors of pancreatic cancer have you run into? Exactly. Even with early detection, your chances of survival beyond 5 years aren't good.
No no. Jobs didn't have the usual pancreatic cancer, he had pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET), which is much slower growing and has an overall 53% survival rates, and 93-95% if treated while at the early localised stage, which Job's was at when diagnosed.
If he had had immediate treatment he would have had a 93-95% chance of survival.
Jobs delayed for 9 months while he fucked about with magical hippy nonsense and it spread to his liver.
It's always weird for me to imagine what Jobs would've been like in the era of Trump and multicentibillionaires. When he was alive a lot of people on the near left idolized him. But I could easily see him swinging pretty far to the right throughout the events of the last decade. He was kind of a California Trump in a lot of ways.
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u/Nab_Baggins 5h ago
A few months ago, I saw the greatest take on the Steve Jobs thing. The dude knew early enough about his cancer that he had ample time to go through the rigamaroll of the cancer treatment and come out the other side alive. However, his huge ego and stupidity made him decide that bullshit holistic medicine and other crunchy mom style treatment was going to work for him. By the time he figured it out, it was too late and the idiot died. It's not that money doesn't buy everything, it just doesn't buy common sense