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Originally Posted by Rathji
I am not a cancer expert at all, but wasn't the chances of Steve Jobs surviving as long as he did for the type of cancer he had less than 1% with normal medicine? or am I confusing that with someone else who had cancer?
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It was a rare form of pancreatic cancer, IIRC 1% is the percent of pancreatic cancer diagnoses that are the same as Jobs'. Its usually quite treatable and doesn't have as bad of prognosis as most other pancreatic cancers, which only give most patients a year once diagnosed.