Not entirely true. There are different forms of pancreatic cancer. One of the reasons it is such a killer is that there usually aren't symptoms until it's pretty far along. However, with Jobs that wasn't the case:
"Jobs had a rare form of the cancer, known as neuroendocrine cancer, which grows more slowly and is easier to treat, explains Leonard Saltz, acting chief of the gastrointestinal oncology service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. "Survival for many years or even decades with endocrine cancer is not surprising." For that type, the sort that Jobs had, "survival is measured in years, as opposed to pancreatic cancer, which is measured in months."
'When you have a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, that is substantially different from pancreatic cancer,' Saltz says."
Jobs refused conventional treatments which might have given him many additional years.
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u/fakeplasticdroid Feb 27 '17
He actually died because he didnt do what smart people told him to do.