Reuters: Steve Jobs’ cancer may have recurred, doctors who have not treated him say

Apple Online Store“Pancreatic cancer experts say they are puzzled by what is ailing Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs, because it is not clear how serious his health problems are or how directly they relate to his bout with cancer,” Anupreeta Das reports for Reuters.

“Doctors who have not treated Jobs say they can only speculate without hard information, but they said the tumor he was treated for in 2004 could have spread to another organ or resurfaced in the pancreas, requiring surgery or other treatment,” Das reports. “Jobs could also be coping with side effects of that surgery that can be treated easily, they said.”

“In 2004, Jobs was treated for a rare type of pancreatic cancer called an islet-cell, or neuroendocrine, tumor. Such tumors can be benign or malignant, but they usually grow slowly and are far less deadly than most pancreatic tumors,” Das reports.

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