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> Jobs also had pancreatic cancer. It's just about the worst cancer you can get. Over 95% mortality rate.

Jobs had GEP-NET cancer, which have 5 years OSR of 70% at stage IV. It's a slow growing cancer, very survivable and even surgically curable in early stage.

The fast, almost always fatal is the pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Also, the mortality rate of a cancer is a function of many variables (stage at the time of diagnosis, tumor differentiation, tumor location, etc.). A number like 95% doesn't make any sense without a lot of context.



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