Cancer Patients Like Steve Jobs Face Risks From Treatment

Patients with the rare form of cancer suffered by Apple Inc’s Steve Jobs face a tougher battle if the disease recurs, because of the methods used in fighting it.



The type of pancreatic cancer is caused by an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.

Jobs was reported to have undergone a liver transplant in 2009 to fight off the spread of the neuroendocrine tumor. Jobs has never publicly stated