https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/10/20/cancer-experts-say-apples-former-ceo-steve-jobs-could-still-be-alive-had-he-had-surgery-earlier/
In a “60 Minutes” segment scheduled to run this Sunday evening, Steve Jobs‘ biographer Walter Isaacson says the former Apple (AAPL) CEO refused to allow surgeons to perform what could have been life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer. In what Isaacson described as one of the most personal discussions he had with his subject, the author says Jobs told him he later regretted his decision to try alternative therapies and said he put off the operation because it was too invasive.
“I’ve asked [Jobs why he didn’t get an operation then] and he said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened . . . I didn’t want to be violated in that way,”‘ Isaacson tells Steve Kroft, according to a statement from “60 Minutes.”
So instead, Jobs waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to get the surgery done, before finally having the operation, according to Isaacson. When Kroft asked how such a smart and informed man could make such a seemingly ill-advised decision, Isaacson replies, “I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking … we talked about this a lot,” he tells Kroft in the show on the eve of when Isaacson’s long-awaited book, “Steve Jobs,” is formally released. “He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it … I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner.”
He finally had the surgery and told his employees about it, but played down the seriousness of his condition. Isaacson says he was receiving cancer treatments in secret even though he was telling everyone he was cured.
= new reply since forum marked as read
