spirited fantastic person. i know the cancer that took her life is such a cruel disease. this has been a rough year for you. i feel like an investigative reporter, and i ve been on the investigation now for 13 months. nine months of it was during her life as a pancreatic cancer patient. the last four is after her death. my report back is extremely harsh. what have you learned? i ve learned there s been no change in mortality rate for pancreatic cancer in 40 years. the 3% of the people that have it die, mostly in the first year. and yet we have no attention to this from the from the nci, which is the national cancer institute, for the nih, and from health and human services. these are the groups that have not been appropriately dealing
we want to bring in our cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen just to try to figure out what is wrong. it was so sad to hear and all of our hearts dropped. before we talk about what his future may look like let s look at his medical history and sort of what he s been through. in 2003 steve jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. thank goodness it was actually a form that is much easier to treat and with a much better outlook than other forms of pancreatic cancer. then a year later he had surgery to remove that tumor from his pancreas. in 2009 he had a liver transplant. when we talk to doctors about why a pancreatic cancer patient would have a liver transplant they said probably because it spread to his liver, the cancer spread to his liver and so he was given a transplant to get a healthier liver. i know he s been, you know, herbal treatments or maybe or some kind of, you know, out of the medical realm he s been doing his own kind of thing to try to get better