Steve Jobs Refused Cancer Surgery to Pursue Vegan Diet

When you look at the detail, his diet intially cured his cancer because two years after diagnosed, he gave the speech at Stanford University saying he had beaten cancer. He would probably have come off the diet and went back to the diet that caused the cancer in the first place, and it returned. Had he maintained the correct diet, such as the Gerson therapy, for longer, it is unlikely the cancer would have returned.

I can't help thinking that my best friend also went on strange vegan, fruit and all liquid diets -- and died from liver cancer just the same. Sometimes modern medicine really does know best. But, we will never really know.

He had surgery before that 2005 speech. If his Gerson style diet had worked he wouldn't have needed the surgery. Jobs later said he regretted not getting the surgery immediately after being diagnosed because if he had he would have lived longer.

Steve Jobs declared two years after being diagnosed with cancer, that the diet he was on had cured his cancer. He went off the diet that saved him, got into trouble again, and had to have a liver transplant. From there it was downhill to his death unfortunately.

Delaying the surgery is what did him in. His vegan diet didn't cure the cancer that's why he needed the surgery which prolonged his life

You need to read nutrition and physical degeneration by Price. Vegan is no necessarily the best thing for all people.

The lesson of this story is don't delay cancer surgery and rely on a vegan diet like Jobs did. A vegan diet may decrease your chances of getting cancer but it doesn't cure it.

I disagree. I spent time in a health institute and know people that have cured their cancer with diet.

Absolute nonsense
Modern medicine is broken massively, it is suggested the form of surgery he undertook was likely the leading co-factor culprit for his demise.

The problem with doing both therapies is the surgery was deleterious to the purpose of the detox diet.

Secondly a detox diet is a poorer source of nutrition and body building requirements. If you undergo surgery these things are very much required. If you are detoxing in recovery and notably are losing a lot of weight, you are fading.

The issue with veganism being used for liver cancer is, the high amount of carbohydrates in such a diet and lack of cholesterol is forcing the liver to work hard and process excess fructose.

The guy was a moron. Great marketer, but the main thing that did him in was his arrogance. The quote says it all. Jobs believed that he could will his cancer away. As for the diet helping him, I would say it might have made him healthy, but getting surgery would have kept him alive.

"During his second leave, the Apple CEO had a liver transplant which, although necessary, may have helped the cancer spread more rapidly, according to physician accounts." It's as if none of you commenting take note of the most important opinion involved here.....
Necessary is not the case.
His diet likely improved his health considerably, but this diet has it's flaws and is not meant for sustained use.
Automatically then suggesting the cesspool of incompetence that is modern medicine knows best is pure ignorant arrogant idiocy.
The basis for medicine left it's roots long ago food is pretty much the cause of all disease even hereditary factors are hand me down nutritional deficiencies as well as environmental factors being injurious to the bodies nutritional stores.
The plethora of drugs Jobs was undoubtedly taking is not touched on. The risk involved with surgery also.
Instead the brain dead folk of fox attack anything their sponsors don't support is alluded to.

He could not recover from a liver transplant, many people that are reasonably healthy often do not recover from such surgery.
Jobs was on a diet suited to detox specific things that cause chaos in the bodies ability to synthesize and organize it's self, but one which would put strain on the liver in dealing with carbohydrate conversion.

If he still was not getting the required nutrition to the liver it was always going to continue to run abnormally, this would then raise the issue even in the healthier environment of a raw food run system.
No matter what people would like to believe, required animal fat and oils are not reproducible from plants. Many may be in a perfect vacuum of god like health that no-one actually has but a person with liver problems certainly isn't your prime candidate for that and it still does not account for all of them and the abundance of dishealth brought on by not having enough fat for immunity and nutrition of things such as the liver through a high carb low fat diet.
Jobs like most people would be deficient in glycine taurine and phosphatidal choline, would have too much uric acid and visceral fat around the liver, be producing too much bile and cholesterol for the recovering liver and would be in metabolic disorder and definitely in a state of gut dysbiosys.

He lived much longer than others who have been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer primarily due to the Gerson Therapy. Had he also elected to have the necessary surgery, he would have still been here.