On: Steve Jobs in Kyoto

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Steve Jobs died from pancreatic cancer. He received a liver transplant, which is not related to that cancer.

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His cancer was metastatic, meaning it spread to other parts of his body. That happens when a cancer is left untreated.

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It also happens when a cancer is treated.

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Other than the reason he needed a liver transplant was because of evidence that the cancer had spread to his liver but not elsewhere...