In October 2013, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid-2004, he announced to his employee that he had a cancerous tumour in his pancreas.
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The prognosis for pancreatic ulcers is usually very poor; Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumour.
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Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 pm on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour, which resulted in respiratory arrest.
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Why Steve Jobs died early?
At the age of 48, Steve Jobs CAT scan revealed a tumour of around 1cm. It means that the tumour must have grown to the size of 10cm which ultimately leads to his death at the age of 56.
It took eight years for the tumour which grew big enough to kill him.
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