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According to this article, this weekend Steve Jobs had surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer.  The article notes that he did not have an adenocarcinoma, but rather a islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, which is, thankfully, much more likely to be cured surgically.

This is interesting to me, since just 2 months ago today, I had a Whipple Procedure (and in my case as well, it was not for an adenocarcinoma, but rather a possible future adenocarcinoma in the stomach and duodenum as well as polyps growing into my bile duct).  Generally, when you have any sort of pancreatic tumor, they perform a Whipple procedure, which removes the duodenum, at least part of the pancreas and sometimes part of the stomach.  The article does not specify what surgery Steve had. 

If anyone who knows Steve reads this, and he is looking for how one geek did recovering from pancreas surgery, I am here<g>.

Good luck, Steve!