According to the American Cancer Society, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 4%.
But you go ahead and blame Jobs if it makes you feel superior.
But you go ahead and blame Jobs if it makes you feel superior.
Uhh... sorry, but you didn't do your homework, and so you've made yourself look like a bone-head. Ho hum.
"Only 4 percent of the 44,000 patients diagnosed every year with pancreatic cancer survive for five years after their diagnosis, but Jobs had a rarer form of the cancer -- occurring in the endocrine glands that produce insulin -- which tends to be slower growing and less aggressive."
From this source.
But I do enjoy feeling superior to you.
Jobs had a milder form of pancreatic cancer which is usually survivable if treated. “... In my series of patients, for many subtypes, the survival rate was as high as 100% over a decade... “ Unfortunately Jobs was so smart his ego wouldn’t allow himself to submit to conventional medicine until too late.