[icclearly]

Jobs needed surgery. He might have lived longer had he gotten surgery sooner.

We agree.

But why did he avoid surgery??

Because he turned to crazy ideas like acupuncture, herbal, diet and fruit juice therapy, and spiritual consultations. He does not have a monopoly on those whacky ideas, even today with many medical improvements in cancer treatment.

That path cost him his life.

[Wallace T.]

There have been instances of people who turn to alternative therapies after conventional ones were unsuccessful; Steve McQueen and Coretta Scott King ate two high profile examples. There are just some cancers that are intractable irrespective of what therapies are used.

[RummyChick]

I will give him credit to understand he might have delayed because of huge ramifications to his company. Survival rate for his type of cancer even if he had the surgery is about just how long he actually lived.
cancer is a tricky thing..even if you beat it into submission your genes are primed to let it win again later.

There are interesting studies on LDH where they have shown even when they can figure out how to stop the feeding cancer switches gears