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Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery

Posted by timothy on from the get-well-soon-steve dept.

Zycom writes "Reuters reports that doctors successfully removed a cancerous tumor from the pancreas of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. In an e-mail he sent out from his hospital bed after the surgery he explained the disease, saying, "I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time (mine was)." He will not need to have any chemotherapy or radiation therapy and has an excellent prognosis. While he is recuperating, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the company."

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  1. Re:Seriously, folks by norculf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Unfortunately Steve Jobs is the only person who is sufficiently out of his mind to run Apple. When he dies, Apple dies.

  2. LSD? by Rgb465 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So I guess ODing on LSD really does cause cancer... ;)

  3. I never knew by kalidasa · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That constant exposure to a Reality Distortion Field was carcinogenous.

  4. Re:If Jobs wasn't there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All hail Jobs; he's successfully milking the Mac by selling routine OS service packs as full-price OS upgrades to fund Apple's transformation into a consumer electronics company.

    You know, every year Sculley was in charge, there were more Macs sold than the previous year. There hasn't been a single three-year period of year-on-year Mac unit sales growth since then. And in 2003 Apple sold fewer Mac units than it did in the last year of Sculley's reign as CEO.

    Jobs is slowly but surely killing the Mac. Oh, yes, Apple is doing fine, and will continue to do so. Selling iPods and other consumer electronics, not computers.