Steve Jobs Undergoes Cancer Surgery

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."

Comments

Re:God bless

[jrockway]

Looks as if you losed your grammar manual too!

It's too bad George Bush doesn't know how to talk!

Re:God bless

[erick99]

Clinton, on the other hand, was very articulate regardless of what his penis was doing at the time. It's a gift....

Erick

technicality ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Stem cell research is allowed ... on existing cell lines and non-embryonic cell lines.

I support stem cell research, but it's a moot point, they have cell lines they can work with and if you don't like the existing restrictions, you can go to the Cayman Islands or India. Just like our software jobs and corporate charters.

monica thought so.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Yugoslavs, however, paid dearly for it.

Re:monica thought so.

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to defend Serbia's actions too much, but it seems a bit like Clinton gave a nice boost to terrorists in that region. Hopefully, they won't come thank us in 747s anytime soon.

Steve Jobs wants to know

[Anonymous Coward]

Steve Jobs asked this question on his death bed:
Tkinter, PyQt, PyFLTK, WxPython or PyGTK - what's the best GUI toolkit for Python?

Re:the cancer has spread

[DrMrLordX]

So, I guess . . . it's not a tumor!

Steve Jobs is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Sad news. Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs is dying of pancreatic cancer. According to a hospital spokesman, this is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with survival after diagnosis usually limited to one year at most. Even if you don't like homosexual computers and one button mice, there's no denying Steve "Rim" Jobs was an American icon. He will be missed.

Mainstream press ignored this.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, singling out Yugoslavia for "special treatment" in this case is like giving one ticket for speeding at the Indianapolis 500. Leaders of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and possibly USA deserve blame too. Yep, Clintons support for Islamic terrorists was labeled "fighting against genocide" a mere 5 years ago.

Re:Here's an ASCII surgery diagram:

[agraupe]

How did I know, with a title like ASCII surgery diagram, that it was gonna be the ASCII goatse (should we call it GOATCII?)

fuck you moderators

[Anonymous Coward]

They passing out free crack samples again?

Re:Marijuana for Jobs

[meistaiwan]

I'm starting chemotherapy tomorrow, diagnosed with Testicular cancer. I have to buy expensive synthetic THC drugs that hardly work instead of being allowed to use marijuana. Not that that is going to stop me.

Re:Seriously, folks

[the pickle]

I know this is supposed to be about Steve -- and may God help him -- but I just have to ask...

WTF purpose would Bluetooth and a colour screen serve on an iPod? I'd rather not sync MP3s over a 1 Mbps connection, thankyouverymuch. And, uh, I can read the monochrome screen just fine, even in bright sunlight, which is more than I can say for the similar-sized screen on my cell fone.

Feature creep is only good if the features are *useful*. Why do you think Slashdot was just running an article about cell fones no longer being profitable?

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