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Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

Steve WozJobs — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:13:30 -0000

Doctor's Interview and point of view:
Everybody is talking about a neoplastic pancreatic condition. The most frequent pancreatic malignancy is ductal carcinoma. Let's suppose he does not suffer from that condition and that, as he says, he has a tumoral endocrine pancreatic disease which is treatable. In that case we look for diseases like MEN (multiple endocrine neoplasia) Type I (MEN I). With symptoms provoking chronic diarrhea, weight loss with tumors of the parathyroid glands, pancreatic islet cells and hypofisis. Sometimes most of the pancreas must be removed in order to control the endocrine symptoms. The disease is longlasting and death can happen in cases of complications. Is he suffering from Insulinoma ?, or a gastrin pruducing tumor of the pancreas ? Who knows, is one of those his condition ? Are they hiding a more frequent and severe disease like ductal carcinoma because of Apple stock price. The insiders are the only people aware of the truth. By the way a Whipple procedure is a type of surgery in which the pancreas and the duodenum are radically removed. It is mostly used to treat pancreatic cancer with the intention to cure.

Let's all hope for the best.

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Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

hypermark — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:53:13 -0000

Investors probably should plan their world on worst case assumptions, but I also think that a larger factor is at work in terms of the punishing that Apple's stock has gotten over the past several months.

For lack of a better term, I call it the Yin-Yang of Apple's Reality Distortion Field, something that I blogged about in a post called:

Punishing the Wizard: On Apple and Steve Jobs
http://thenetworkgarden.com...

Check it out if interested.

Cheers,

Mark

Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

Geoff — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:10:01 -0000

Sixer sounds confused.

Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

Sixer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:07:08 -0000

What is the state of the information according to you? You don't know what to believe, but you'd be surprised if he returns in a day-to-day capacity?

Speculate much?

Re: NYT: Steve Jobs’ health crisis not cancer, but does it even matter?

Engago team — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:12:39 -0000

Getting away from day-to-day operations could be beneficial for Apple.
Steve Jobs can take time to have a broader view on the world and surprise us all in June.

The Apple tribe needs innovation in order to keep following their leader.