“Tech titan Steve Jobs’ trust in alternative medicine immediately after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis likely shortened his life, a Harvard Medical School researcher contends,” Bill Hutchinson reports for The Daily News.
“Researcher Ramzi Amri says the Apple cofounder’s death last week at age 56 was ‘unnecessarily early,'” Hutchinson reports. “In a lengthy post on the popular question-and-answer web site, Quora, Amri argues that Jobs reduced his chances of survival by resisting his doctors’ recommendation of immediate surgery after his October 2003 diagnosis.”
Hutchinson reports, “Jobs, a practicing Buddhist, instead pursued special alternative medicines and diets for nine months before eventually undergoing the operation to remove his tumor, according to published reports… Amri described Jobs’ form of cancer as ‘mild’ and could have been remedied if he had immediately opted for surgery. By the time Jobs underwent surgery in July 2004 at Stanford University Medical Center it was too late, Amri contends.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Citymark” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Doctor: There’s no way of knowing if nine-month surgery delay shortened Steve Jobs’ life – October 15, 2011
He knew he had cancer and fucked around with quacks instead of solving the problem. He chose to be a dumb ass Buddhist to be California fashionable. That helped lead him to the second dumbest thing he did in his life (first was denying a baby was his an lying like a dog it was not and that he was sterile).
Cost him years of life . Those are the facts, get over it.
I agree with MyKey. It was his life, he did what he felt was best for him. I don’t think anything else matters.
Besides the total lack of supporting evidence and general insensitivity of this peice, the thing that offendeds me the most about this is how it causually name drops Buddhist beleifs as if that explains a disregard for science. Budhism is by far the religion most in tune with science. Budhism (at least as it was taught by the Buddha – can’t make speak for every sect) doesn’t conflict with science in any way. The only remotely supernatural or unprovable thing Buddhism claims is enlightenment – the idea that an ordinary person can achieve a profound of the universe through hard work. While this idea might be impossible to prove, it spurs people to learn more about the universe.
Why does any of this matter? If he decided to act contrary to his doctor’s recommendations, then that was his choice. No person or institution told him what he could or could not do, what he must or must not do – only what he should do. He made his own choice about his treatment, and that is as it should be.
If I was diagnosed with cancer, and my choice was chemicals & chemotherapy (in other words Slow Death) … I’d take the cancer.
Ah, a fast and painful death-seeker. How about suicide? It’s faster and less painful that to let the cancer grow and spread.
Have fun!
BTW : not every cancer requires a chemotherapy.
Quiet day in La-La Land? What is the point of any of this woulda, shoulda, coulda, yadda, yadda and dick- measuring?
HE”S DEAD. HE DIED. Happens to everyone that’s ever been born. Get over it. Celebrate his works, if you must, but pass on the autopsies. His works will confirm his place in history. His personality died with him.
There are some serious misunderstandings about Eastern medicinal traditions here. And it isn’t just here; this misunderstanding is endemic to Western culture.
The focus and purpose of Eastern medicinal traditions (Chinese, Ayurvedic, etc.) is PREVENTION, *not* cures. Eastern medicinal tradition isn’t “medicine” you take when you’re ill, it’s about adopting a lifestyle conducive to health and ingesting the kinds of nutrients, herbs, tonics and wholesome foods that stack the medical deck most in one’s favour.
Thus, you don’t take medicine when you get sick, because you don’t get sick in the first place.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It’s true.
Its incredible how insensitive all the posts on this thread are. A man died which visions in technology helped and will help humanity if we choose right. So everyone that think they have the one solution to cure the man, why didn’t you do something? Instead all critize each other on something you didn’t were a part of. Steve Jobs did what he thought best in his case. And that’s it. Believe me he probably was much more clever than all of us together, so he knew what he did. Believe me.
Because most of us are still angry that Jobs and his genius was taken so soon from us. We jealously wish he could have had more time here on earth with us.
Modern medicine has no cures for cancer and Steve Jobs lived 9 years with his tumor. I would suggest cancer patients learn of alternatives and use them as slash, burn and poison (surgery, radiation and chemo) do not address the cause of cancxer, nor its spread, which is the deadly form. The problem for Mr. Jobs is that he chose ouija-board alternatives, not the newly-found molecular medicine that vitamin D, resveratrol and other natural molecules offer.
So says the guy with a vested interest in Western Medicine. Wasn’t that long ago western medicine was barbaric. To this day we treat the symptom, not the cause.
On the other hand eastern medicine is thousands of years old. Western a few hundred.
I’m just gonna say as I don’t think anyone has yet, that the people who created the drug companies and modern medicine don’t necessarily care about humanity (i.e. sociopathic) and they can actually be blocking ancient knowledge which is much more beneficial to humanity than current science etc. for their own benefit (money, power, global population reduction to more easily assert control over the masses to try to get rid of their fear of lack of control over everything).
I know people don’t like to think this is possible but how wouldn’t it be? So instead of people forcing their beliefs upon other people just to try to make themselves feel better or get rid of the fear that they might be wrong, why don’t they research things themselves and/or let other people believe what they choose without ridiculing them. This world underneath could be completely different from how you think it is.
Well, at least we know Zuccotti Park’s free WiFi still works.
I had to look up what Zuccotti Park was. I don’t know what the point of saying that was apart from trying to slyly ridicule me. Why don’t you just not reply if you’re not going to say anything useful or relevant? What makes you think it’s okay to reply to a genuine theory with something like that?
In France, a study on cancer, begun in 1843, had just been published. A physician of the French Academy of Science, Dr Leroy d’Etoilles, gathered together as many statistics as possible at that time from some 170 practitioners who had treated cancer. The reason for the study was to compare survival rates of those who elected to undergo the standard treatments for cancer against those who refused these treatments. According to Dr Naiman in her book Cancer Salves, the standard treatments consisted of surgery, caustics “such as nitric acid; sulfuric acid mixed with saffron; poisonous minerals such as lead, mercury, or arsenic nitrate; or alkaline caustics such as sulfate of zinc. Copper sulfate [mixed with borax], quicklime, or potassium permanganate were also used, evidently with mixed success.”
The conclusion of the study showed that those who avoided traditional cancer therapies outlived those who underwent them. Did this stop anyone from practicing these therapies? Perhaps, but for the most part, these treatment protocols continued on till the advent of Radium therapy that proved to be even more deadly than any previous protocol, but was highly recommended because it was a great money maker.
History, we are told, often repeats itself. A study presented to the American Cancer Society in the nineteen-eighties, concluded much the same as that study in France over a century earlier. Ellen Brown’s book, Forbidden Medicine gives us the following:
One of the few studies … was conducted by Dr. Hardin Jones, professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He told an ACS panel, “My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals. For a typical type of cancer, people who refused treatment lived for an average of 12-1/2 years. Those who accepted surgery or other kinds of treatment [chemotherapy, radiation, cobalt] lived an average of only three years. . . . I attribute this to the traumatic effect of surgery on the body’s natural defense mechanism. The body has a natural defense against every type of cancer.
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/history03.htm
“Tech titan Steve Jobs’ trust in alternative medicine immediately after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis likely cost our industry some sweet dinero”, a Harvard Medical School sophist contends.
It’s amazing and telling that even the smartest, most brilliant (genius is certainly not overstating it for Steve) people among us can be taken advantage of and steered toward making poor choices. He might choose to go to a psychic, church, or rely on homeopathic medicines. He was going to die anyway, so I hope he felt comfort in those decisions.
In this case, his choices are not a vote for the validity of these shams or the sincerity of those who promote them, but rather proof that even the greatest minds among us are still vulnerable (and I don’t mean your grandma’s a bad person for going to church. She’s the victim, and she’s no doubt quite earnest in her pursuits. I’m talking about those who are taking advantage of grandma’s fears and lifetime of programing, like the guy with the goofy Grand Poobah hat there in Rome).
There was nothing buddhist about this moron. I’m glad the scumbag is dead.