[2CNWXAqN]

who is that skinny prat?

[M1iFiNmC]

He was at a dinner last night with President Obama and a bunch of other people, so maybe he's not as ill as has been made out?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...h-leaders.html

Well and if you look at the actual photo of him next to Obama vs. the tabloid photo, you can see that actual Jobs has more meat on him. He is still quite thin, just not as bad as the old skinny man they claimed to be him.

[Sarah Armstrong]

Not a huge Apple fan... do like what he has done, in fact I am in awe at what he has done.. We need more like Steve. Carry on and show these bastards...

[PristisoliTer]

He was at a dinner last night with President Obama and a bunch of other people, so maybe he's not as ill as has been made out?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tech...h-leaders.html

Ohh look.. Zuckerberg was there as well. [rolleyes]

[Kdgjhytiy]

You guys are all whiny bitches. Who gives a **** about some guy who makes gay tech products that you don't even know?

Did that do it for you baby? It sounds like you can't get me off your mind.

24/7 baby. x

[BartRonalds]

someone should make an app game where kinda in an operation type way you replace his failing organs one by one with iReplacements, until finally he is just iSteve and like the lawnmower man becomes one with the network. Probably have to do it on droid... since there is no way Apple would let it slip by, but it would be a great way for droid users to razz iphone users.

[ArrichMer]

someone should make an app game where kinda in an operation type way you replace his failing organs one by one with iReplacements, until finally he is just iSteve and like the lawnmower man becomes one with the network. Probably have to do it on droid... since there is no way Apple would let it slip by, but it would be a great way for droid users to razz iphone users.

Genius.

[Promalada]

The Equirer is basing it's weeks to live story on what 2 "doctors" have guessed by looking at a photo of the back of his head. what a load of bull ****. why does anyone even entertain this drivel?

[pongeystrhjst]

Exactly. Still probably weighs more than EaG.

[PharmaDrMan]

It sounds like some people are denial? This is what happens to people with pancreatic cancer, they start losing massive amounts of weight, they appear to age dramatically in a matter of months, looking 30yrs older than they actually are. Many are still able to walk around and do day to day tasks until just weeks before their death, until eventually they become too weak to walk unaided, Steve Jobs may be some months away from that, but that picture is him, just look at the ears and the arm/hand, the guy is dying. [rolleyes]

[feqlmwtuqx]

Just on a serious note, let's remember that he has pancreatic cancer. It's a death sentence and that's a fact.

Really? That's the same cancer that killed my dad, surprising, in light of the amount of alcohol he consumed and his heavy smoking.

[provigil]

Really? That's the same cancer that killed my dad, surprising, in light of the amount of alcohol he consumed and his heavy smoking.

In my experience of cancer (sadly, quite a lot) it doesn't seem to follow that particular habits mean you'll get a particular kind. I've known a heavy smoker die of bowel cancer, a non-drinker die of liver cancer and a few more. I imagine it's the way I'll meet my maker as my paternal grandmother was riddled with it for years.

[HenriRow]

Really? That's the same cancer that killed my dad, surprising, in light of the amount of alcohol he consumed and his heavy smoking.

Smoking is a huge independent risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer. So is excessive drinking.

Sorry to hear about your dad.

[feqlmwtuqx]

Smoking is a huge independent risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer. So is excessive drinking.

Sorry to hear about your dad.

More than 20 years ago, so so worries, mate.
As you say, both those things increase the risk of all sorts of cancers, although one tends to associate them with lung and liver cancers.

[Daruhuw]

In my experience of cancer (sadly, quite a lot) it doesn't seem to follow that particular habits mean you'll get a particular kind. I've known a heavy smoker die of bowel cancer, a non-drinker die of liver cancer and a few more. I imagine it's the way I'll meet my maker as my paternal grandmother was riddled with it for years.

I should think I'm in the same boat, my mum died from it and both of her parents died from it.
All 3 had different types though so at least it'll be a surprise what strain I get.

[provigil]

I should think I'm in the same boat, my mum died from it and both of her parents died from it.
All 3 had different types though so at least it'll be a surprise what strain I get.

If it happens to me I'm gonna chemo the ******* out of it.

[Jeaxatoem]

If it happens to me I'm gonna chemo the ******* out of it.

I hear that.

They can kill the cancer, the problem is keeping the patient alive after it. I'd personally take more than the recommended dose if I could.

[M1iFiNmC]

It sounds like some people are denial? This is what happens to people with pancreatic cancer, they start losing massive amounts of weight, they appear to age dramatically in a matter of months, looking 30yrs older than they actually are. Many are still able to walk around and do day to day tasks until just weeks before their death, until eventually they become too weak to walk unaided, Steve Jobs may be some months away from that, but that picture is him, just look at the ears and the arm/hand, the guy is dying. [rolleyes]

You don't seem so sure. Are you looking at the tabloid photo or the actual photo of him that Bungle linked?

[PharmaDrMan]

You don't seem so sure. Are you looking at the tabloid photo or the actual photo of him that Bungle linked?

Well what i mean is comparing the two photo's in this thread if you look at the size and shape of his ear, you can see they are identical in both pics, his hand doesn't look so bad in the pic with Obama simply because he has his hand clenched in a fist, which pulls the skin tighter making it look less wrinkled, so i think both photos are, sadly, of him.

If he'd just left that specialist cancer treatment centre then it's no wonder he looked like crap if he'd just been having some intensive chemo' treatment, but besides that, try googling images of him and you can see from the many photos how much he has changed in such a short period of time, terminal cancer patients have a distinctive look, it's strange but they do, this is why i think they haven't published any pictures of his face in full recently.

EDIT:

Just learned that the picture from the national enquirer is genuine, the full shot show Jobs face from the front, it is him.

[spoddersedpn]

what strain I get.

cancer isnt a virus or a bacteria, the type of cancer someone may get depends on the type of cells involved. its a mutation. with so many cells dividing in your body and the complexities involved if everything isnt controlled something eventually is bound to go wrong whether hormonal, environmental or otherwise. its only takes one erroneous cell to mutate and that cell quickly becomes two, then four, then 8 etc. Hence why its so dangerous, the body doesnt recognise it as foreign so it doesnt attack it and it cant identify which cells are damaged, the cells dont simply have a shutoff to be reabsorbed into the body and they exponentially grow out of control and can effect like or similar cells as the body needs to replace aging ones.

There are numerous different avenues scientists are taking to find and kill the damaged cells but finding them safely is proving very difficult, the best course of action for a while now seems to be to bombard the area with so much radiation it effectively destroys all cells in that area. problem is if its spreads too far, chemotherapy isnt an option given what the treatment is. chemotherapy in that instance harms what little healthy cells you have left

Im optimistic about a safe effective treatment in our future, with the knowledge of understanding our genes (of which there have been remarkable progress made), nanotech etc. hopefully cancer when it occurs will be nothing more than just a quick unremarkable treatment than none of us really have to worry about anymore

I cant really find any good informative articles right now but here's an abstract:

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=32467

British researchers have gained a great deal of attention by using a technique called nanotechnology to fight cancer. We've talked about nanotechnology before. Here is what the researchers did: they packaged anti-cancer genes in very small particles that are only taken up by cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. Bee venom:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0802101817.htm

On a personal note i lost a grandparent too it, it turned an enormous (literally, he loved his food, didnt drink or smoke though) energetic man into a mere shadow of his former self before he passed, he was easily three, four times the weight of my father in his health, before it took him he weighted less than him.

I absolutely love hearing about when people beat it. Never gets old, no matter who or where they are