VERY interesting, including the photos, videos and your great diagrams. (Makes me think twice when i eat too much peanut butter). I am wondering, since you are a surgeon, are you seeing more and younger people with various cancers? I just don't remember there being that much cancer 40 to 60 years ago; it seemed realatively rare and was mostly among the elderly. . . now it seems like it's just considered normal, even among the young . . . what do you think?
You have it exactly right, yantra. Cancer incidence is increasing in young people and has been since the mid-1900s. I think it's due to - or at least it follows- the increase in obesity, the greater the percentage of unhealthy, "processed" diet we eat, the decrease in exercise, etc. It's one of the reason's SJ lived so long after he got cancer in his mid 20s; he ate a very, very healthy diet. He was obsessed with eating healthy. This is one of the things that infuriates me about Walter Isaacson, putting down SJ's immediate reaction to treat his cancer with "roots" as Isaacson derogatorily noted in the video. He was 100% wrong and upside4 down on this AND 100% wrong about the notion that if SJ had gotten surgery immediately, he would have improved his chances of survival.
Yup, it worked ok. It's another fascinating video and makes my brain whirr on all sorts of new levels... I just really struggle to watch anything on yt because I don't like the platform.
It's all such amazing stuff really, that we can even think about doing this stuff let alone doing it and even more mind blowing that it can be done with success.
Wait til you see some of the surgical stuff I've done. Some people said they'd like to see more. I'm going to bash on Walter Isaacson one more time. Then I'll do a medical one.
Very helpful videos. I seem to recall he rejected his doctors’ advice, which I believe involved chemotherapy, and, perhaps other therapies, and went to a clinic in Switzerland for an alternative treatment protocol, the details of which I never found in print. Was this not a similar tumor to the one Ruth Bader Ginsburg had?
I didn't read anything about SJ going to Switzerland. I'm not sure what kind Ginsburg had. I remember her getting CA in several locations, though. Where was the primary?
Her early cancer was described in media as ‘a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas, and therefore as having a better prognosis than more common pancreatic cancers.’ She later had a primary colon cancer of another type. The information I found was sketchy--some said mets to liver were neuroendocrine, some said otherwise. OTOH, she was entitled to confidentiality, OTO, she was a very public figure and there were lots of armchair diagnosticians trying to figure out what was going on, based on news service limited reports.
So she had primaries of two types (it was probably an adeno-ca in the colon), both of which commonly metastasize to the liver. If I had the op report info0, I could determine when she got her primaries.
VERY interesting, including the photos, videos and your great diagrams. (Makes me think twice when i eat too much peanut butter). I am wondering, since you are a surgeon, are you seeing more and younger people with various cancers? I just don't remember there being that much cancer 40 to 60 years ago; it seemed realatively rare and was mostly among the elderly. . . now it seems like it's just considered normal, even among the young . . . what do you think?
You have it exactly right, yantra. Cancer incidence is increasing in young people and has been since the mid-1900s. I think it's due to - or at least it follows- the increase in obesity, the greater the percentage of unhealthy, "processed" diet we eat, the decrease in exercise, etc. It's one of the reason's SJ lived so long after he got cancer in his mid 20s; he ate a very, very healthy diet. He was obsessed with eating healthy. This is one of the things that infuriates me about Walter Isaacson, putting down SJ's immediate reaction to treat his cancer with "roots" as Isaacson derogatorily noted in the video. He was 100% wrong and upside4 down on this AND 100% wrong about the notion that if SJ had gotten surgery immediately, he would have improved his chances of survival.
Fascinating Reid, thanks.
Thanks. Be sure to check Addendum #2. It has the ERCP video.
Struggling to watch on yt, is there any chance of posting on another platform such as Odysee?
Thanks
Did you try clicking on it? It works fine for me. You are talking about the ERCP video, right?
Yup, it worked ok. It's another fascinating video and makes my brain whirr on all sorts of new levels... I just really struggle to watch anything on yt because I don't like the platform.
It's all such amazing stuff really, that we can even think about doing this stuff let alone doing it and even more mind blowing that it can be done with success.
Thanks again.
Wait til you see some of the surgical stuff I've done. Some people said they'd like to see more. I'm going to bash on Walter Isaacson one more time. Then I'll do a medical one.
Excellent, look forward to it.
Very helpful videos. I seem to recall he rejected his doctors’ advice, which I believe involved chemotherapy, and, perhaps other therapies, and went to a clinic in Switzerland for an alternative treatment protocol, the details of which I never found in print. Was this not a similar tumor to the one Ruth Bader Ginsburg had?
I didn't read anything about SJ going to Switzerland. I'm not sure what kind Ginsburg had. I remember her getting CA in several locations, though. Where was the primary?
Her early cancer was described in media as ‘a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas, and therefore as having a better prognosis than more common pancreatic cancers.’ She later had a primary colon cancer of another type. The information I found was sketchy--some said mets to liver were neuroendocrine, some said otherwise. OTOH, she was entitled to confidentiality, OTO, she was a very public figure and there were lots of armchair diagnosticians trying to figure out what was going on, based on news service limited reports.
So she had primaries of two types (it was probably an adeno-ca in the colon), both of which commonly metastasize to the liver. If I had the op report info0, I could determine when she got her primaries.
It was mentioned in a Fortune Magazine article after Jobs’ death.