Did Steve Jobs doom himself by delaying conventional medical treatment?
When doctors first discovered a cancerous tumor on his pancreas in 2003, Mr. Jobs was urged to undergo an operation to remove it. But he chose instead to try alternative treatments, experimenting with herbs, acupuncture and other remedies for nine months before agreeing to surgery. As Denise Grady points out in a story in today?s New York Times, by then, the cancer had spread to his liver, leading many to speculate that putting off surgery may have done more harm than good.
But there is no way in this life to know what might have been ? not in politics, baseball, romance or the stock market, and certainly not in sickness and health. Mr. Jobs?s wish to avoid or delay surgery was not unusual. And given the type of tumor he had and the way it was found, his decision to wait may not have been as ill considered as it seems at first blush ?.
Dr. Edward M. Wolin, co-director of the carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said that among patients with the kind of cancer Mr. Jobs had, ?when they are first found on a scan, about 60 percent of the time it?s already metastasized to the liver.? Another expert, Dr. Steven K. Libutti, director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care in New York, said that based on his reading of the new biography, it seemed likely that Mr. Jobs?s tumor had spread by the time it was found, and the delay in surgery probably did no harm.
Is there any way to know whether Mr. Jobs made the right decision? Read the full article, ?Hindsight Is Kind to Steve Jobs?s Decision to Delay Surgery,? and then please join the discussion below.
Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/steve-jobss-cancer-choices/
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