Actor Patrick Swayze’s very public battle with stage IV pancreatic cancer raised public awareness of this disease. Three other public figures died from cancer of the pancreas this past year: “Dream Team” coach Chuck Daly, CBS News executive Don Hewitt and journalist and presidential speechwriter William Saffire. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was also […]
People Archives: Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Urges Everyone to Become Organ Donors
Last June, Mr. Jobs received a new liver from a young adult who died in a car accident. Today he stated that “I wouldn’t be here without such generosity.” Did you know…? Almost 100,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants. Every 12 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant […]
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Did Not Have Pancreatic Cancer
An article by Miguel Helft in this morning’s New York Times continues to perpetuate the false impression Mr. Jobs is a a survivor of “pancreatic cancer.” As regular readers of Celebrity Diagnosis know, Mr. Jobs had an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor. The only thing that these two types of cancer have in common is that […]
Liver Transplant in Memphis: Jobs’ was Sickest Patient on Waiting List
Steve Jobs’ liver transplant was performed at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN. Here is a statement from the hospital James D. Eason, M.D.,program director at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation confirmed today, with the patient’s permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at MethodistUniversity Hospital Transplant Institute in partnership […]
Steve Jobs’ Liver Transplant and Tumor
Most news stories about Mr. Jobs’ tumor misleadingly refer to it as “pancreatic cancer” rather than an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor which is what it really is. The differences are critically important as these two conditions are treated differently and carry very different prognoses. The more common type of pancreatic cancer is the one from […]
Steve Jobs’ Liver Transplant
Back in January, Steve Jobs said that he had a “hormone imbalance” as a result of his rare form of pancreas cancer and that it was “relatively simple and straightforward” to treat. A week later, when he announced that his condition was “more complex” than previously thought, little did we know that he would later […]
Cancers of the pancreas: Patrick Swayze, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, (Steve Jobs)
Pancreatic cancer seems to be in the news a lot lately. Most recently, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was diagnosed with stage 1 pancreatic cancer (single spot in pancreas without any spread elsewhere). Her early stage cancer was found on a screening CT scan done as follow up for colorectal cancer she had in […]
