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Steve Jobs regrets postponing cancer surgery

October 23, 2011 11:14 AM

The pancreatic cancer that killed Steve Jobs was discovered in 2004 when he was being checked for kidney stones. Biographer Walter Isaacson tells Steve Kroft that Jobs postponed a potentially life-saving operation - a decision he later regretted.

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by Steve.Stapleton October 24, 2011 4:16 AM EDT
There is a certain Greek tragedy to Steve's story. In a classic Greek tragedy, the downfall of the hero comes because of the very factor that allows him success in the first place. Steve was successful precisely because of his reality distortion field where he could drive people to do and create the impossible. That very ability to ignore perceived reality and its constraints led him to believe he could cure his cancer thru alternative means and the delay caused by that belief killed him.

My heart goes out to his family, his wife, his three daughters -- two of whom are so young -- and his son, Reed. Reed is just starting college at Stanford and is remarkably like his father, both in looks and in his drive to succeed. I wish them all some respite from their painful loss. Whatever else Steve was in his life, in the end, he was a man with a family who loved him very much and will miss him forever. My deepest condolences to them.
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by kathrynlynch October 23, 2011 10:27 PM EDT
Steve Jobs was a genius but he fell into the trap of thinking that he knew everything about everything. He wasn't a medical doctor but he had enough money to get the best ones in the world. He changed the world but he lost his life. Too bad.
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