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Steve Jobs disease. What did Steve Jobs die from?

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...When I got sick, I realized that other people would write about me when I died, and they would not have the right understanding about anything. They'll get it all wrong.
Steve Jobs

According to official sources, Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer. It is also believed that he tried alternative methods of treatment, and moreover, throughout his life he adhered to a vegetarian or vegan diet, and at some times even more strict forms of nutrition, such as a raw food diet and fruit diet.

In discussions between supporters of alternative methods of treatment (including vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, fruit eaters) and their opponents, one often hears the following argument - since he died of cancer, that means all of this (alternative methods of treatment, as well as various health-improving diets) ) do not work in treating cancer. There are even versions that he killed himself on a vegan diet, i.e. his cancer is a result of his diet.

It would seem that the argument is ironclad, as they say, “Practice is the criterion of truth.” But did everything really happen as official sources are trying to convince us? Dr. John McDougall, a successful physician and researcher who treats his patients with changes in diet and lifestyle, will help you understand this issue. Read more about it at the link.

We bring to your attention two materials - a video presentation by Dr. John McDougall, as well as an article.

Why did Steve Jobs die?

Case Study of Steve Jobs' Cancer

The sensational death of Jobs in 2011 remains a mystery in wide circles. Opponents of veganism even claim that the vegan diet caused Jobs' death. We recently learned how a tumor grows. Doctor John McDougall MD in his article explains and answers many questions.

I decided to translate the article into Russian because it is extremely important for understanding how cancer develops, factors influencing its development and measures to prevent cancer. Read and be healthy!

Why did Steve Jobs die?

Steve Jobs gave me tacit permission and encouragement to write this article about the medical and nutritional aspects of his life when he commissioned his biographer to report on the true state of affairs. “I wanted my children to know about me...”
“Also, when I got sick, I realized that other people would write about me when I died, and they wouldn’t have the right understanding about anything. They'll get it all wrong. So I wanted to make sure that someone heard my story.” (556) Jobs would have loved to hear from an outside expert about his pancreatic cancer and his diet because my thoughts were in line with what he intuitively believed was right. I hope my report will bring peace to his family and friends following his untimely death.

This article is not a criticism of his doctors or their medical care. I am sure these specialists did what they could for him. Looking back on the past, everything is clearer. The purpose of this article is to establish what really happened.

“In October 2003, he confronted his urologist who was treating him and she asked him to do a CT scan of his kidneys and ureters. (453) It's been 5 years since his last scan. A new scan showed his kidneys were fine but revealed a shadow on his pancreas.”
For a tumor to become visible on a tomography, it must be at least 2 millimeters in diameter. I believe that shadow on the scan of his pancreas was at least one centimeter in diameter. A tumor this size contains 1 billion cells and takes 10 years to grow.
A mass of this size contains 1 billion cells and grows on average for 10 years. Death usually occurs when individual tumors reach ten centimeters in diameter. Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (insular cell tumor), the kind that Jobs had, fits this growth pattern.

The natural history of the growth of Steve Jobs' pancreatic cancer can be determined through mathematical calculations. The time interval between his diagnosis at age 48 and his death at age 56 was approximately 8 years (October 2003 to October 5, 2011). From these dates it can be determined that the tumor mass in his pancreas was doubling in size every 10 months. (Typically, solid tumors of various organs double in size every 3 to 9 months.) His tumor was growing very slowly.

Knowing the steady rate of doubling of his cancer cells (every 10 months), we can find out the date when Jobs' cancer appeared. His cancer began when he was a young man—he was about 24 years old. Similar calculations show that his cancer had spread from his pancreas to his liver (and other parts of the body) more than two decades before his July 31, 2004, surgery. (Exact methods for performing these calculations are provided at the end of this article.)

Jobs very much regretted that when he found out that he had incurable cancer, he refused to have surgery for 9 months in a row. He believed that cancer could have been cured if he had acted earlier. Since the cancer began to spread throughout his body between the ages of 25 and 30, removing the cancer found on a CT scan in October 2003 (he was 48 years old) would never have cured it.

How does a tumor grow?

People unfamiliar with how a tumor grows are easily deceived into thinking that it spreads like wildfire almost overnight because one moment a person seems to be in good health and then the next moment the patient's body is taken over illness. When cancer is first diagnosed, people believe that it is an “early disease” that can be “caught in time and cured” if the tumor is removed. This myth, unfortunately, is not true.

Cancer grows at a constant rate (called doubling time). Early growth is invisible because the tumor is microscopic in size.
The cancer's growth in size is hidden from view as one cancer cell divides into two cells, two into four, and so on.
The doublings remain undetectable until the tumor reaches 1 mm in size - it now contains millions of cells, and this takes approximately 6 years of growth.
After about 10 years of growth, the tumor becomes 1 cm in diameter and already contains one billion cells.
On this moment In the natural history of a tumor, doublings become apparent: one billion cancer cells divide and become a mass containing already two billion cells, and the next doubling will provide 4 billion cancer cells in the patient's body.

Thus, the tumor is undetected by the patient and his physician during the first two-thirds of its natural history, and this leads to confusion.

Cancer caused problems for Steve Jobs in his 30s and 40s

A report of Jobs' antics during a 1987 meeting says: "His hands, which are inexplicably a little yellow, are in constant motion." (223). Yellow discoloration of the skin is a classic sign of jaundice. Cancer of the head of the pancreas often blocks the flow of bile, leading to jaundice. It is possible that the tumor at this time (1987) was causing partial and intermittent obstruction (blockage).

His cancer had given him abdominal and back pain for at least 5 years before his diagnosis in October 2003. “I was driving to Pixar and Apple in my black Porsche convertible, and I started having kidney stones. I went to the hospital and they gave me a shot of Demerol (painkiller) in my butt and eventually the pain subsided.” (334) An October 2003 CT scan (which showed a shadow on his pancreas) showed no abnormalities in the kidneys. (453)

Kidney stones appear as a result of a diet high in animal protein. Given the fact that Jobs was on a strict vegan diet, it is unlikely that he had kidney stones. I do not have his medical reports, however, I believe that some or all of these exacerbations were misdiagnosed and, as a result, the wrong treatment was prescribed for kidney stone pain. Jobs was actually suffering from cancer growing in his pancreas.

Evidence that the cancer had been present for at least 10 years prior to diagnosis came during his surgery on July 31, 2004. “Unfortunately, the cancer has spread. During the operation, doctors discovered three liver metastases.” (456) If surgeons were able to see tumors on the surface of the liver with the naked eye, each tumor must have been at least 1 cm in diameter. As I explained above, these metastases began more than two decades ago, when Jobs was in his mid-twenties. Finding a tumor on the liver means that the cancer spread to other organs of the body many years ago.

Jobs considered himself a highly sensitive, intuitive person who relied on his sixth sense. At some level of consciousness, he may have known that he had been ill for twenty or more years before his diagnosis. In 1983, “Jobs shared with John Sculley (CEO of Apple) that he believed he would die young.” (155) Jobs was only 28 years old when he made this prophecy.

Lead (Pb) or other carcinogens from computers caused Jobs' cancer

Jobs speculated that his cancer was caused by the grueling year he spent, starting in 1997, leading both Apple and Pixar. (452, 333) He suggested, “Perhaps the cancer began to grow at that time because my immunity was quite weak at that time.” (452) However, based on reliable calculations, his tumor most likely appeared decades earlier, during his youth, when he built computers and other electronics with his own hands without sufficient precautions.

In the summer after the first year at high school Homestead in Los Altos, California, Jobs called HP's Bill Hewlett: “He answered and chatted with me for about twenty minutes. He provided me with spare parts and also gave me a job in a factory where they made frequency meters.” (17) There he was exposed to toxic chemicals known to cause pancreatic cancer.

Another example: Jobs soldered circuit boards in the early period Apple(67) Soldering is typically an alloy containing lead, tin, and other metals. Lead is classified as a probable human carcinogen.
Carcinogens are a class of substances that are directly responsible for DNA damage and promote or assist the development of cancer. Lead is suspected of causing pancreatic cancer.

Steve Jobs may be the best known example of the high risk of cancer in people working in the electronics industry, they are exposed to carcinogens as a consequence professional activity. Metals found in personal computers include aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, palladium, platinum, selenium, silver and zinc.

Steve Jobs getting cancer was an accident, like being killed by lightning or being hit by a car. The carcinogen(s) entered his body, and due to genetics, “bad luck,” or other unknown and uncontrollable factors, his body was susceptible. The cause of his cancer was not a vegetarian diet.

In fact, it healthy diet, likely slowed the growth of his tumor, delayed his diagnosis, and prolonged his life.

Jobs suffered from unreasonable regret, believing that he had hastened his own death

Jobs lived the last 8 years of his life with regret, guilt and remorse for delaying his surgery for 9 months after his cancer diagnosis.
One a simple sentence his doctors could free him from this heavy burden. They could tell him about it simple fact: “Mr. Jobs, your body was full of cancer long before October 2003, when you were diagnosed by biopsy.”
Apparently, neither of his doctors—not Jeffrey Norton, who operated on his pancreas in 2004, nor James Eason, who performed a liver transplant in 2009—told Jobs this undeniable truth.

In October 2003, after confirming that there was a tumor in his pancreas, one of his doctors “advised that he get his affairs in order—a polite way of saying he may have only a few months to live. That evening they performed a biopsy, inserting an endoscope down his throat and into his intestines to insert a needle into his pancreas and collect some tumor cells. … It turned out to be islet cells or a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas...” (453)

Jobs initially refused surgery to remove the cancerous tumor. “I really didn't want them to cut my body open, so I tried to look at other options that might help.” (454) Nine months later, “in July 2004, a CT scan showed that the tumor had grown and may have spread.” (455) Jobs had surgery on Saturday July 31, 2004 at Stanford medical center. He underwent a modified Whipple procedure, cutting out part of his pancreas. (455)

The next day he assured Apple employees, writing by e-mail that the type of cancer he had “represents about 1% of the total number of pancreatic cancers diagnosed each year and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed early (as in my case).” (455) In retrospect, everyone will agree that this statement was not true.

Unfortunately, he spent the rest of his life believing that he could have recovered if he had not delayed surgery by nine months. “According to Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, the Apple mastermind ended up greatly regretting the decision he made several years ago to forego potentially life-saving surgery in favor of alternative treatments like acupuncture. nutritional supplements and juices. His initial reluctance to undergo the operation was apparently unclear to his wife and close friends, who constantly urged him to do so.”

“We talked about it a lot,” says his biographer. “He wanted to talk about it, about his regret. … I think he figured he should have let himself be operated on sooner.” This lie was told again shortly after Jobs' death in a 60 Minutes interview with Mr. Isaacson.

By early 2008, it became clear to Jobs and his doctors that his cancer was spreading. (476) In April 2009, he underwent a liver transplant. “When doctors took out the liver, they found spots on the peritoneum, the thin membrane that surrounds internal organs. In addition, tumors were throughout the liver, which means that the cancer most likely migrated to other places.” (484) “But by July 2011, his cancer had spread to his bones and other parts of his body...” (555). Almost everyone admitted defeat. He died on October 5, 2011 from a body full of cancer that began when he was a young man working in Silicon Valley.

The prevailing view was and remains that Jobs acted selfishly, stupidly and irresponsibly when he refused surgery in October 2003, at the time of his diagnosis. Based on an analysis of the course of his illness, Jobs did not act rashly. The cancer had spread many years before diagnosis and could not be stopped by any means.

Vegan diet extended Jobs' life

Jobs became a vegetarian during his first year at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. (36) From time to time he ate only fruit and considered himself a fruitarian. (63, 68, 83) He followed a strict vegan diet (no animal products) throughout his life, except for occasional deviations. (91, 155, 260, 458, 527, 528) Jobs often became upset when meals were not prepared according to his instructions. When a waiter at a restaurant served him sauce with sour cream, Jobs was indignant. (185). He once “spitted out the soup when he found out it contained butter.” (260)

For most of his life he was considered a "prickly, skinny vegetarian." (243) He was said to look “like a boxer, aggressive and elusively graceful, or like an elegant jungle cat ready to pounce on its prey. "(297) However, most of his family, friends and colleagues did not understand or sympathize with Jobs' vegan diet.

His diet was in sharp contrast to that of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who ate at Denny's and whose favorite foods were typical American pizza and hamburgers. (189) Wozniak, who is overweight and four years older than Jobs, is still alive. Because of this seeming paradox, many people ignore the importance of a healthy vegan diet.

After Jobs developed cancer, he recalled some of his earlier teachings about the benefits of a low-protein vegetarian diet for cancer. (548) I believe Jobs was right, and a healthy low-protein vegan diet slows the growth (doubling) of cancer and prolongs the patient's life.
However, animal fats, animal proteins, vegetable oils, and vegetarian soy isolate products (isolated soy protein) may contribute to the growth of cancer. Steve Jobs often ate in restaurants. His vegan diet may have contained too many vegetable oils, as well as meat substitutes and vegan cheeses (all foods high in isolated soy protein).

The ultimate insult: Jobs was forced to eat meat

"One of side effects The surgery could have been a problem for Jobs, due to his obsessive dieting and the strange cleansing and fasting routines he had been practicing since he was a teenager. Because the pancreas produces enzymes that allow the stomach to digest food and absorb nutrients, removing part of the organ will make it difficult to get enough protein.”(455) He was advised to eat meat and fish. (455) The lack of protein in Jobs's diet was not a problem, but his friends, family, biographer, nutritionist and doctors continued to attack his strange obsession with an extremely restrictive diet. (477) Jobs lost 18 and then eventually 22 kilograms, which was the result of partial loss of his pancreas, the use of morphine to control pain, his chemotherapy treatments, a liver transplant, and drugs used to suppress organ rejection. (477) Until his death, doctors implored him to consume high-quality protein. (548) Clearly, their insistence that he eat animal products had no effect on his health, and one reason is that the advice was wrong.

“Powell (Jobs’ wife) was a vegan when they got married, but after her husband’s surgery, she began introducing fish and other foods into the family diet. protein products" (477) Jobs eventually succumbed to these intense demands and began eating seafood and eggs. (527, 528) Because of the false hope that animal products would help, he was forced to turn away from what he was sure was good for his body, his religious beliefs, and his concern for the welfare of animals and the environment.

The prevailing view was and remains that Jobs acted selfishly, stupidly and irresponsibly as a vegan. But he lived more than 30 years with pancreatic cancer.(His treatment methods did little or nothing to prolong his life and caused him great suffering at great cost).

To summarize

Neither Steve Jobs's vegan lifestyle nor his rejection of surgery were the actions of a madman. Rather, both decisions demonstrated his rationality, genius, intuitiveness and inner strength to stand up for what he was sure of. This truth may now give family and friends some peace of mind. In addition, those who associated Jobs' cancer with his vegan diet can safely return to healthy eating.
When considering and publishing the causes of his cancer, one should also focus on the severity of the harm caused by chemicals used in the electronics industry.

Look at the misfortune that befell Steve Jobs, one of the richest and most powerful men who ever lived. A little free, harmless and honest consultation could make a big difference physically, mentally and emotional condition Jobs, especially during the last 8 years of his life when he gave us so much. I have two MacBook Pros, an iPhone, an iPad2, I use iTunes daily, and my grandchildren love Pixar movies. Thank you Steve Jobs, I wrote this report as a small thank you for all you have done.

Steve Jobs' pancreatic cancer growth calculations

For calculations, use the doubling time calculator at: http://www.chestx-ray.com/spn/DoublingTime.html.
This calculator is a simple mathematical tool, and it does not matter which cancer cells you are talking about (lung or pancreatic).

Calculations since diagnosis in October 2003:

We use a doubling time calculator (enter the day of his diagnosis, say October 15, 2003, and the day of his death, October 5, 2011) to determine that the tumor grew in 2912 days (~8 years) at the time it was known that Jobs had cancer.

Let's say the tumor mass (the shadow found on the October 2003 CT scan) was 10mm (1cm) in size (the tumor was probably much larger, but I don't have his medical records).
When he died more than 8 years (2912 days) later, the tumor would have grown to 100 mm (10 cm) if it had not been removed.

Entering the size of the primary tumor in the pancreas (10 mm) and the size at death (100 mm), plus the knowledge that it took 2912 days for the cancer to grow during this interval - the calculator tells us that the doubling time of his tumor was 292 days (that is, the tumor doubled approximately every 10 months).

Let's do the math backwards to find the time when the cancer appeared: enter the size of the first cancer cell in his pancreas - 10 micrometers (µm) (use 0.01 mm*), and enter 10 mm for the size of the tumor detected by tomography on October 15, 2003 .

*One micrometer (µm) = 1/1,000,000 meter = 0.000001 meter = 1/1000 millimeter (mm) = 0.001 mm (mm); Therefore 10 µm = 0.01 mm.

With a doubling time of 292 days, it took the tumor 8,740 days, or about 24 years, to grow from 10 microns to 1 cm.
(The number 8740 is determined by a selection of different time intervals in the doubling time calculator, until it is reached right time doubling.)

Jobs was 48 years old when he was diagnosed. Subtract 24 years, we get that he may have been aged 24 years old when the cancer appeared. It is no coincidence that this was after he began working at Hewlett Packard and continued to work closely with many of the electronics industry's carcinogens over the next several years.

Calculations for the metastatic tumor found in Jobs' liver during his surgery on July 31, 2004:

Using a doubling time calculator (entering the day of his surgery, July 31, 2004, and the day of his death, October 5, 2011), we get the value known to Jobs' doctors - 2,622 days (~7 years) for the tumor to grow in his liver (and the rest of his liver). his body).

Let's assume that the 3 metastatic tumors found on the surface of his liver during surgery on July 31, 2004 were each 1 cm (10 mm) in size.
When he died more than 7 years (2622 days) later, these tumors would have each grown to 100 mm (10 cm) in size (if his liver had not been removed during his liver transplant in 2009).

We enter the size of the liver tumor at the time of surgery (10 mm) and the size at death (100 mm), and the 2622 days it took for the cancer to grow during this interval - the calculator tells us that the doubling time of liver tumors was 263 days ( that is, every 8 ½ months the tumor in the liver doubled in size).

The doubling times of the original pancreatic tumor and metastatic liver tumors should be the same, and they are similar: 10 versus 8 and a half months.

Let's do the math backwards to find the time the tumor metastasized to the liver (and his bones and the rest of his body): enter a figure of 10 micrometers (.01 mm) for the first cell that spread to the liver, and 10 mm for the liver tumor found July 31, 2004. Then look for a period of time that will correspond to a doubling time of 263 days.

The time to grow from 10 microns to 10 mm is 7870 days or about 22 years.
During his surgery on July 31, 2004, when metastatic tumors were discovered, he was 49 years old. Let's subtract 22 years from this age - he was 27 years old when metastases from pancreatic cancer began.

In a best-case scenario, the tumors on Jobs' liver at the time of his surgery on July 31, 2004 were only 1 mm in size (that's the size of an egg, as seen with a magnifying glass or microscope).
The doubling time would then be every 132 days. (Enter 1 mm and 100 mm and 2622 days into the calculator to get a 132-day doubling time.)

Calculating backwards from 1 mm to 0.01 mm with a doubling time of 132 days, we find that the tumor began growing in Jobs' liver more than 7 years (2640 days) before his surgery on July 31, 2004. According to this best case scenario developments, he was 42 years when the tumor spread from the pancreas to the liver and the rest of his body.

There was no possibility that the cancer could have been caught in time (before it spread), even if he had agreed to surgery at the time of his initial diagnosis in October 2003, or even within 6 years before that date. However, because no one told him these facts, which were well known in medical scientific circles, he lived for 8 years until his death with an unfounded and unnecessary sense of guilt. Until now, his family and friends lived under the same oppression.

Biography Steve Jobs life episodes and obituary . When born and died Jobs, memorable places and dates of his life. A film about Steve Jobs. Quotes, photos and videos.

Years in the life of Steve Jobs:

born February 24, 1955, died October 5, 2011

Epitaph

“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost amazing person. Those of us who were fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost dear friend and an inspiring mentor. "Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
Epitaph on the Apple website after the death of Steve Jobs

Biography

Biography of Steve Jobs became legendary during his lifetime - a daring dreamer who revolutionized the world of computers. Adopted child, who never finished college, who organized a company in the garage of his parents’ house, which later became one of the most expensive companies in the world, he seemed to be proving with his whole life: you need to dream and believe in yourself, and then everything will work out. Or almost everything.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. His parents were not married, and their relatives were against their marriage, so Jobs's biological mother and gave him up for adoption, taking from foster parents the promise that they will give Steve a higher education. Who knows how Jobs' biography would have turned out if Clara and Paul had not become his parents. They worked tirelessly to raise money for their adopted son's education, and in 1972 Steve entered Reed College. And then left him - after six months, because he was bored there. True, he attended lectures for another year as a free listener and later admitted that they gave him a lot.

While still at school he met Steve Wozniak. Wozniak and Jobs founded Apple together in the garage of Jobs' parents' home.. In fact, first Personal Computer(Apple I) assembled by Wozniak, but it was Jobs who convinced his friend not to sell the patent, but to refine it and create own business, acting as a talented marketer. Already four years later Jobs became a multimillionaire. But not everything always went smoothly in the history of Steve Jobs - for example, in 1985 he was fired from Apple, but invited back after twelve years. It was under his leadership that the company was able to significantly strengthen its position in the market. He became hers ideological inspirer, a face, a person whom thousands, if not millions of young people dreaming of such success, wanted to be like.

It seemed that Steve could do everything. But Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, rare and, according to doctors, incurable. However, Steve was not going to give up so easily - the tumor was successfully operated on. It seemed that he managed to win again, but five years later the cancer that miraculously disappeared returned. followed long treatment, severe weight loss, liver transplant and Jobs’s next return to work with excellent prognosis.

But on August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs released his open letter in which he said: “I have always said that if the day ever came when I could no longer fulfill my responsibilities and expectations as the head of Apple, I would be the first who will inform you about it. Unfortunately, this day has come." It became clear to everyone that Jobs had serious health problems, but everyone fully hoped for a miracle, which, alas, did not happen. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011. No one had any doubts about how Steve Jobs died - the cause of Jobs' death was pancreatic cancer. The news that Steve Jobs died shook the public, filling the pages of Internet sites, blogs, and newspapers.
Steve Jobs funeral took place two days after his death - it was a small, private funeral. At Stanford University, where Jobs gave a fiery speech in 2005, a closed service was held, attended by Steve Jobs' relatives and colleagues. To this day, Steve Jobs remains for many a dreamer, a winner, a person who inspires action. Steve Jobs Quotes- these are the words of a person who lives every day as if it were his last, who knows how to set goals for himself and achieve them, loving life and received from her everything he wanted: love, success, money and dreams come true.

Steve Jobs with his wife Lauren and illegitimate daughter Lisa

Life line

February 24, 1955 Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco.
summer 1972 Finishing school, entering Reed College in Portland.
1974 Work at Atari in Los Gatos, California, a video game company. A trip to India in search of spiritual enlightenment.
1975 Return to Atari.
April 1, 1976. Registration of Apple Inc. with Steve Wozniak.
May 17, 1978 Birth illegitimate daughter Lisa Nicole Brennan from her relationship with Chris Ann Brennan.
December 1980 Apple Inc.'s first public sale of shares. Steve Jobs becomes a multimillionaire.
1985 Dismissal from Apple.
1986 Purchase of Pixar studio for $5 million.
March 18, 1991 Wedding to Lauren Powell.
September 1991 Birth of son Reed.
August 1995 Birth of daughter Erin.
1997 Returning to Apple as interim CEO.
1998 Birth of daughter Eve.
2000 Jobs becomes Apple's permanent CEO.
2003 Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
August 2004 Surgery, successful tumor removal.
October 2004 Steve Jobs's first public appearance after surgery.
2006 Sale of Pixar studio in exchange for shares of Walt Disney worth $7.4 billion.
January 2009
June 2009 Jobs' return after liver transplant.
January 17, 2011 Taking leave for health reasons.
August 24, 2011 Official resignation from the post of head of Apple Corporation.
October 5, 2011 Date of death of Steve Jobs.
October 7, 2011 Steve Jobs' funeral at Alta Mesa Cemetery.

Memorable places

1. Steve Jobs' house, where he lived with his parents and in whose garage he founded Apple Computer together with Steve Wozniak.
2. Homestead School, where Steve Jobs studied.
3. Reed College, where Steve Jobs studied for the first six months and then remained a free student for a year.
4. Office of Apple, created by Steve Jobs.
5. Pixar Studio, owned by Steve Jobs from 1986-2006.
6. Steve Jobs' home, which he purchased in the 1990s. and lived there until the end of his life.
7. Alta Mesa Cemetery, where Steve Jobs is buried.
8. Monument to Steve Jobs in Grafisoft Park in Budapest.

Episodes and facts from life

Steve Jobs has always been a talented and inquisitive child with extraordinary abilities who does not like formalism. So, in primary school He At first I was considered a hooligan until one of the teachers found an approach to him. As a result, when Jobs finished the fourth grade, the school director offered to transfer him directly to the seventh, but Steve’s parents agreed on the sixth. Jobs was also expelled from college after six months, but he continued to attend lectures and classes that were interesting to him. According to him, it was thanks to the calligraphy course he took that he was able to create the famous Mac fonts.

Courage, self-confidence- were one of Jobs' main qualities. So, at the age of 12, Steve called the head of Hewlett-Packard on his home phone and talked with him for 20 minutes. The teenager wanted to assemble an electric current frequency indicator and needed some parts. At the end of the conversation, the HP president not only agreed to send necessary details, but also offered Steve a summer job in his company.

Jobs's best qualities that helped him achieve success also hurt him - for example, lack of modesty, timidity and, as a result, some arrogance. Precisely because of his complex nature Jobs was forced to leave Apple. But when he started a family and children, he became much softer and changed his attitude towards people, himself and his employees. His return to Apple allowed the company to become the most successful company in the computer market.

Steve Jobs battled cancer for 7 years and tried not to advertise the disease, declaring only a good prognosis after completing the next course of treatment. According to him, the disease helped him look at life differently: “The memory that I will die soon is the most important tool that helps me accept complex solutions in my life. Because everything else - other people's opinions, all this pride, all this fear of embarrassment or failure - all these things fall in the face of death, leaving only what is really important. Memory of death - The best way avoid thinking that you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no longer any reason for you not to follow your heart.” Steve’s loved ones, who were next to him at the time of his death, claim that the last words of the geniuses, a few hours before his death, were: “Wow! Wow! Wow!".

Steve Jobs has always been a bold dreamer

Testaments and bright quotes of Steve Jobs

“Stay hungry. Stay reckless."

“Don't waste your time living someone else's life... have the courage to listen to your heart and intuition. Somehow they know what you want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Condolences

“I am saddened by Steve's passing. Together with his wife, we express our most sincere condolences to his family and friends and everyone who worked with him. Steve and I first met about 30 years ago and have been colleagues, competitors and friends for the better part of our lives. It is rare to find a person in the world who has had as much influence as Steve, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those who were lucky enough to work with Steve Jobs, it was a huge honor. I will miss Steve terribly."
Bill Gates, creator and largest shareholder of Microsoft

“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and friend. Thank you for showing that you can change the world with what you build. I will miss you".
Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook

“Steve was one of America's greatest innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. Steve liked to say that he lived every day like it was his last. It is because of this that he changed our lives, entire industries and accomplished the most important feat - he changed our vision of the world. The world has lost a prophet."
Barack Obama, US President

“Even as a feminist, all my life I’ve been waiting for a man to love and who will love me. For decades, I believed that my father would be such a man. But when I turned 25, I met such a man, and he turned out to be my brother.”
Mona Simpson biological sister Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is one of key figures computer industry - died of a serious illness at the age of 56.

Neither Jobs himself nor Apple provided accurate information about the causes of the illness and his well-being. In conversations with reporters, Jobs refused to specify details regarding his health and noted that he and his family would be “very grateful for the respect shown” to his personal life. He considered his health to be his personal matter, which should not concern anyone else.

Disease history

In 2003, it became officially known about a serious Jobs illness A. Doctors diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer. This disease is considered fatal. The chance of living at least another 5 years is 10%. Jobs was included in the list of “lucky ones”; he was diagnosed with an operable form of cancer - rare view This disease is known as neuroendocrine islet cell tumor. Jobs initially resisted the idea of conventional medical intervention and following special diet. But in July 2004, he still underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy (“Whipple procedure”). Then the tumor was successfully removed. Jobs did not require chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

In early August 2006, Jobs gave a speech at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His appearance led to rumors of a possible recurrence of pancreatic cancer. He looked "thin, almost skinny" and unusually "lethargic." However, journalists who saw Jobs in person said that he “looked good.” In addition, Apple representatives said that “Steve’s health is good.”

Repeated rumors about Jobs' illness appeared in 2008, after his speech at WWDC. Then Apple representatives said that Jobs was a victim of a “common virus” and was taking antibiotics. Despite this statement, rumors spread that his emaciated appearance was due to the effects of cancer treatment.

Representatives of Apple often had to answer questions about the health of Steve Jobs at official conferences. The answer was almost always the same: “This is a private matter.”

Steve Jobs himself also did not like to talk about his health. At one media event, Jobs ended his presentation with a slide that read “110/70”—blood pressure. While showing this slide, he stated that he would not answer questions about his health.

In January 2009, Apple reported that Jobs had been suffering from a “hormonal imbalance” for several months. A few days later in a memo Apple Jobs wrote that last week I "learned that my health issues are more complex than I thought." So he announced he was going on six-month leave until the end of June 2009. Jobs devoted this time to rest and his health. But despite the vacation, Jobs was involved in "major strategic decisions."

Liver transplant

In April 2009, Jobs underwent a liver transplant at the University of Tennessee Methodist Hospital in Memphis. The need for a transplant was due to pancreatic cancer. This type of cancer metastasizes to many organs and in most cases affects the liver. The doctors were pleased with the result of the operation and made “excellent” prognoses.

In January 2011, a year and a half after Jobs returned from a liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted medical leave.

As during his previous medical leaves, Jobs was actively involved in the life of the company. He spoke at the iPad 2 launch on March 2, introduced iCloud at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, and spoke to the Cupertino City Council on June 7.

In August 2011, many publications published photographs of Jobs, which showed that he had lost a lot of weight and needed a wheelchair.

Distant target

Steve Jobs battled cancer for more than 8 years and was able to live longer than some doctors predicted. Treatment of pancreatic cancer is extremely difficult. The official cause of death is pancreatic cancer. But doctors note that other causes of death for the Apple founder may include failure of the transplanted liver and life-threatening side effects of taking immunosuppressants.

Journalist Walter Mossberg, who knew Steve Jobs well for the past 14 years, wrote in The Wall Street Journal about visiting Jobs at his home while he was recovering from a liver transplant at home in Palo Alto. . After talking, they decided to take a walk. After the operation, Jobs walked every day, always setting himself a longer-term goal for walking.

The journalist recalls that Jobs this time “wanted to get to the nearby park at all costs.” At the same time, as Mossberg writes, he looked sick. On the way to the park, Jobs suddenly stopped. “He was clearly unwell. I offered to return home, making it clear that I did not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and vividly imagined the headlines of tomorrow's newspapers, which would definitely write “Helpless reporter allowed Steve Jobs to die while walking.” He laughed, but refused to return, and after a short rest we continued our walk towards the park,” recalls Walter Mossberg.

Before his death, Steve Jobs, who suffered from pancreatic cancer, deeply regretted abandoning conventional medicine in favor of alternative treatments. According to experts, timely surgical intervention would allow him to prolong his life or even be completely cured.

Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 in October 2011. He battled cancer for almost eight years. The tumor was discovered accidentally during computed tomography kidney Immediate surgical intervention was required, but Jobs, despite the entreaties of doctors and relatives, categorically refused and, preferring alternative medicine: he hoped to be cured with the help of acupuncture, a strict vegan diet, which was based on freshly squeezed juices, regular colon cleansing, meditation, hydrotherapy and other naturopathy . His biographer Walter Isaacson says in his book that at one time Jobs consulted a psychic about his treatment. According to Isaacson, in relation to his health, the IT genius was completely irrational: he relied on a certain “ magical power thoughts,” believed that if you ignored a medical problem, pretended it didn’t exist, it would eventually resolve itself.

The tumor was removed only nine months after diagnosis, in July 2004. A few years later, the disease began to progress again, it was discovered. Due to morphine and other painkillers, Steve lost his appetite and rapidly lost weight - in a matter of months he lost 20 kilograms. This was partly due to the fact that most of his pancreas, which produces enzymes needed to digest proteins and other nutrients. In 2009, Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant, but his health continued to deteriorate. He began to appear in public less, went on an indefinite leave, and then completely left the post of CEO of Apple.

At this time, Jobs radically changed his ideas about the possibilities of medicine, became disillusioned with homeopathy and became interested in experimental methods, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. According to The newspapers New York Times, he is one of the twenty who underwent DNA sequencing for the first time. A team of leading researchers scientific institutes The United States has identified the unique genetic and molecular structure of his cancerous tumors. Based on this information, Jobs' doctors were able to select drugs that acted directly on the damaged molecular pathways that provoked the growth of cancer cells. The thought that modern innovative medicine was fighting his insidious illness gave hope to the innovator Jobs. Walter Isaacson recalls that after one of his meetings with doctors, an inspired Steve told him: “I will either be the first to defeat this cancer or one of the last to die from it.”

However, even geneticists were powerless in the face of this terrible disease. For a cancer patient, a delay of nine months is fraught with irreversible consequences. Especially if we're talking about o, which is one of the most dangerous and aggressive types of cancer. As a rule, it is detected in late stages and does not respond well to therapeutic treatment - patients “burn out” within a few months. Among oncological diseases This type of cancer ranks tenth in prevalence and fourth in mortality.

However, in the case of a neuroendocrine tumor, which was diagnosed in Steve Jobs, specialists’ forecasts are more optimistic. This rare form of the disease (seen in only 5% of pancreatic cancer sufferers) develops much more slowly than adenocarcinoma (). “Most patients can feel relatively normal for several years, as was the case with Steve Jobs,” explains Matthew Kulke, an expert at the Institute for Cancer Research at Harvard University. In addition, neuroendocrine tumors are often treatable, so timely Surgery in this case would most likely solve the problem. If only the pancreas is affected, there is a high probability that surgery will help cure serious illness Once and for all. Many experts who have studied Steve Jobs' medical history are confident that by self-medicating, he deprived himself of the chance of recovery.

Doctors warn about non-traditional treatment methods such as: acupuncture, homeopathy, breathing exercises and other practices are appropriate only as maintenance therapy. Indeed, they can improve the patient’s well-being, speed up his recovery after surgery, reduce pain and help get rid of the side effects of chemotherapy. However, in no case can they replace conventional medicine.

Steve Jobs - outstanding man, who made a huge contribution to the development of the computer industry. His story is a story that, without higher education built a powerful empire. In just a few years, he became a multimillionaire.

Judging by his lifespan, the gap between the date of birth and death of Steve Jobs is not very long. But he will be remembered as one of the best managers in the world, and people will forever remember him as an irrepressible visionary.

Jobs' medical history

For a long time, there were only rumors about Jobs' illness. Neither Steve himself nor Apple provided any information because they did not want interference in their personal lives. And only in 2003 did information appear that Jobs was seriously ill and the diagnosis was terrible: .

This disease is fatal, and most people live with this diagnosis for no more than five years, but with Jobs everything was different. And after a short resistance to medical intervention, Jobs finally had the tumor removed in 2004. Then he did not have to endure either chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

But already in 2006, when Jobs spoke at a conference, his appearance again gave rise to many rumors about the disease. He was thin, even too thin, and there was no trace left of his former activity. The same rumors began to spread two years later, after his entry into WWDC. And then representatives of Apple commented that this was an ordinary virus, and Jobs still considered this his personal matter.

And already in 2009, Jobs took a leave of absence for six months, but did not stop participating in the company’s affairs. It was pancreatic cancer that caused the liver transplant performed in April of the same year. This operation was successful and the doctors had excellent prognoses.

But January 2011 changed everything again, and not in better side. Jobs took another sick leave. And, as during previous holidays, he took an active part in the work of the company.

It took Steve Jobs eight years to fight cancer. This is much more than many other people manage. But all this time he fought for his life, participated in the management of the company and was surrounded by loved ones. He was a persistent and strong man.

Steve Jobs' last words

After his death, a message left in his hospital room was published. Last words Before his death, Steve Jobs reaches the deepest corners of every person’s soul. He wrote that the wealth that many considered the personification of success, for him was just a fact to which he was accustomed. And he had few joys outside of work.

He was proud of his wealth and well-deserved recognition while being healthy. But in a hospital bed, in the face of death, it lost all meaning. And then, lying in the hospital and waiting to meet God, Jobs realized that it was time to forget about wealth and think about more important things. And he considered these things to be art and dreams. Those dreams from childhood.

And Steve considered Love to be the greatest treasure that needs to be protected throughout life - for a loved one, for family, for friends. Love that can overcome time and distance.

Steve Jobs died of cancer

But everything ends someday. In Santa Clara County, California, Jobs' death certificate was issued by the health department. From it, people learned why Steve Jobs died. The death certificate of the head of a huge American corporation, Steve Jobs, lists the date of death as October 5, 2011. The official cause of death was respiratory arrest, which was caused by pancreatic cancer. He was only 56 years old.

The place of death was identified as Jobs' home in Palo Alto. The occupation in the same document sounds like “entrepreneur”. A day later, Steve Jobs' funeral took place and was attended only by family and friends.

The death of this truly great man was a shock to people all over the world. He is buried in the Alta Messa cemetery, and only the date in his biography will remind you of the year in which Steve Jobs died.

Steve Jobs before his death

Their last days Jobs spent time here in Palo Alto. His wife Lauryn and his children were with him. And, already knowing that he did not have long to live, he met only those people with whom he really wanted to say goodbye.

His close friend, a doctor by profession, Dean Ornish, visited a Chinese restaurant in Palo Alto with Steve. Jobs also said goodbye to his colleagues and often communicated with biographer Walter Isaacson.