pancreatic cancer

After a long battle with a very public pancreatic cancer, died of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple on Wednesday. He was 56.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today," the company said in a brief statement.

"The brilliance of Steve, passion and energy source of innovations that enrich countless and improve all our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."

Fought cancer have jobs in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of unspecified health problems.

He is said to avoid the treatment of cancer early in favor of changing his diet, but in the end it was a tumor - which he said was a rare form called the island of neuroendocrine tumor cell - removed successfully.

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) about 85 to 90 percent of people who will be a liver transplant are alive after one year, and about 75 to 85 percent of people will survive at least five years after the transplant, on its on the Internet.

Have on patients who receive liver transplants take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of their lives to reduce their risk for rejection.

But while these drugs serve their purpose, the system can immune to the danger of leaving patients vulnerable to other diseases.

Got other jobs leave in January - his third since the start of his health problems - before resigning as CEO six weeks ago. Became the Chief of Apple and handed the task to his successor, CEO for more than a hand-picked him, Tim Cook.

Most cases of pancreatic cancer and non-symmetrical, and patients who rarely carries the meaning of the symptoms of the disease until it's too late to stop the spread.

Caught in the advanced stages, pancreatic cancer, which affects about 30,000 people annually, contains 5 percent rate of survival for five years. Caught early and treated with surgery and chemotherapy, and the rate of survival five years passed by 17 to 25 percent.

Tumors of islet cell neuroendocrine are usually less aggressive, less common form of cancer of the pancreas, which represents only 1.3 percent of the cases. Pancreatic cancer is usually proves fatal within 4 to 6 months of diagnosis, but neuroendrocrine tumors tend to be the rate of survival is much better.

In 2010, there were 43,140 new cases and deaths, 36800 and in accordance with the National Cancer Institute website. And most cases are diagnosed until you reach the later stages, making it the fourth leading cause of death in both men and women. Patients are usually in the mid 60s to the late cases, and are usually intermittent.

But there are risk factors including smoking, drinking alcohol, and in some cases a genetic predisposition to the disease. May be some who suffer from chronic pancreatitis also be at risk.

Along with eating right and refrain from smoking and drinking alcohol, there is very little that can be done to prevent this disease.

In 2005, after the match with cancer, delivered a speech at Stanford University and jobs in the beginning.

"Remember that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life," he said. "Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is really important"