On October 5, 2011, the death of Steve Jobs was announced by the board of directors of Apple. Steve died in a peaceful way in the close surroundings of his family.
The medical history of Steve Jobs cancer has been one more of rumours and speculations each time he showed up clearly thinner than before or took a medical leave from Apple. What we do know is that he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, a part of his pancreas removed and that he became thinner and thinner.
Steve had a liver transplant, so we assume that or the liver was damaged due to chemotherapy, radiation or whatever treatment Steve was undergoing, or because Steve’s cancer had spread to his liver.
If the latter would have been the case, normally doctors won’t do a transplant. Because as long as the primary cancer is alive, it will find its way back to the liver and cause havoc again, be it this time to a body that is taking extra medication to keep the body accepting the new liver.
Most likely the latter is what complicated Steve’s health:
- on one part you take medicine in order for your body to accept an "intruder": as that’s basically what the transplanted liver is all about when it comes to the immune system of the body.
- on the other part the immune system should do all it can to kill "intruders" like cancerous cells.
For all this is speculation. We know that the worst part is that Steve’s close friends and family have done all they can but wont be able to sit down and enjoy life with Steve anymore, need to grieve and recharge. We wish them our deepest condolences and give them our prayers.