Biographer Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs Denied Early Potentially Life Saving Surgery

During his intimate talks with Apple CEO Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson has revealed that Jobs refused an early and potential life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer because he believed at the time it would have been too invasive.

Isaacson says Jobs told him during one of their deepest discussion that he regretted putting off the surgery in favor of alternative methods.

The full discussion about Jobs and his battle with cancer and his life at Apple will be fully disclosed in the book Steve Jobs and Isaacson reveals more information with 60 Minutes interviewer Steve Kroft on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

In the interview Isaacson says:

“I’ve asked [Jobs why he didn’t get an operation then] and he said, ‘I didn’t want my body to be opened…I didn’t want to be violated in that way.'”

During Jobs’ nine months attempt to avoid the surgery his wife was urging him to have the surgery performed.

When asked why Jobs would make such a stupid decision Isaacson says:

“I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking…we talked about this a lot,” and “He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it….I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner.”

In another revelation the biographer says even after Steve Jobs received the surgery and was battling his cancer with various treatments he was telling everyone the cancer had been cured and he was fine.

In any case the world lost a tech visionary and now only time will tell how Apple will fare without their head innovator.