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To: Steely Tom
Just think of Steve Jobs. Dead today because he wanted to pursue a Buddist approach to dealing with his pancreatic cancer. Wrong.

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.

10 posted on 11/25/2011 8:32:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

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.

30 posted on 11/25/2011 8:43:18 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.

http://gawker.com/5849543/harvard-cancer-expert-steve-jobs-probably-doomed-himself-with-alternative-medicine?tag=valleywag


98 posted on 11/25/2011 9:24:30 AM PST by plain talk
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