[LINK] Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer?

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

From Quora:

"Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality, a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine. He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether. He's not alone in that. We come across many people like this and we all know someone in our midst that uses homeopathy or has this known fear of anything "chemical" (to those I always say that everything is chemical, if you think dihydrogen oxide sounds scary you should stop drinking water). Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our modern society and the medical world makes no exception."

There is a lot of information out there about links between diet and cancer; I don't know what to make of it but it's not pseudoscience, just highly 'organic' and non-linear

This seems confused. There's a large amount of work showing that diet can help prevent cancer. Claiming that diet does much of anything after one has cancer is not at all justified by any decent scientific work.

OK, I understand your point. I'm not familiar with the literature on this topic.

However -- within this context of limited knowledge -- it seems to me that if diet can help prevent cancer it might also help in slowing it's progression, especially when you consider that there are a number of stages of cancer. Maybe with some cancers it would be an adequate solution if the cancer doesn't progress. That is, if diet is related to certain cell conditions that make certain stages of cancer less likely, it seems these same conditions would also make (a) the trans... (read more)

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