# Steve Jobs has cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933 "2004-08-02T05:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/1 "2004-08-02T05:24:43Z")
[Steve Jobs](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=77&e=1&u=/mc/20040802/tc_mc/applesjobsdoingwellaftercancersurgery) had surgery for pancreatic cancer over the weekend. Apparently, its the islet cells that are effected, not as serious as the adenocarcinoma that most patients get. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/2 "2004-08-02T05:37:51Z")
Man, I hope that guy will be all right. He’s been one of my heros for years. Hell of a smart guy and a real innovator. Always tries for great products with user ease in mind. All of us here owe him a debt. Those of us who would have managed to be here (if there was even a here at all) would be clumsily and uninterestingly interacting with our computers via a command-line interface…and probably DOS, at that. A slight nitpik: the thread title is a little misleading. He’s had surgery and refers to himself as having _had_ cancer (past tense). He says it was caught in time. Hopefully, it was and he will recover fully. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/3 "2004-08-02T05:38:30Z")
Sounds like he is going to be fine. Doesn’t require chemotherapy or radiation. I’m glad to hear that he’s going to be (knock on wood) okay. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/4 "2004-08-02T12:15:59Z")
I wonder what kind of health-care plan he gets at work? I bet it includes dental. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/5 "2004-08-02T13:34:15Z")
> [@Starving Artist](#): > > Man, I hope that guy will be all right. He’s been one of my heros for years. Hell of a smart guy and a real innovator. Always tries for great products with user ease in mind. All of us here owe him a debt. Those of us who would have managed to be here (if there was even a here at all) would be clumsily and uninterestingly interacting with our computers via a command-line interface…and probably DOS, at that. > > A slight nitpik: the thread title is a little misleading. He’s had surgery and refers to himself as having _had_ cancer (past tense). He says it was caught in time. Hopefully, it was and he will recover fully. Until he has 6 month-5 year follow-ups and remains tumor free, he isn’t truely considered “cured.” I hope he’s right. My Mac does too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/steve-jobs-has-cancer/257933/6 "2004-08-02T20:22:38Z")
Didn’t he ever hear the old wive’s tale about an apple a day?