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Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a pancreas cancer survivor, had a liver transplant in Tennessee around in April, according to Wall Street Journal. In January Times speculated that Jobs might undergo a pancreas remove surgery when he announced to take a  medical leave to be ended on June 30 for an undisclosed medical condition. WSJ, which did not name any source in their report, said Steve has been recovering well and is expected to return to work on schedule at the end of this month. He may work part-time initially, the newspaper noted.

Neither Jobs nor company spokeswoman Katie Cotton confirmed if the co-founder of Apple Inc. had indeed undertaken a liver transplant. Steves was yet to respond to an email requesting comment while Ms. Cotton said, “Steve continues to look forward to returning at the end of June, and there’s nothing further to say.”

Due to his health ”more complex than he originally thought”, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has decided to take a six-month-long medical leave of absence ending on June 30.  Times speculated Mr. Jobs who survived a prancrea cancer in 2005 might go to undergo surgery to remove his pancreas. As this is a matter of privacy, we did not speculate anythig concerning with Jobs, but wish him all the best.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ health is a much discussed topic after he was noticed a sudden weight loss since 2008. His cancellation of a keynote speech at Macworld 2009 sparked a lot to think Jobs is in great ill, some pransters even spoofed Steve Jobs death news. In a letter to quell Apple community’s concerns for his health, CEO Steve Jobs said it was a hormone imbalance that caused him the weight loss while without giving any details. Also, he said he was expected to regain weight late this Spring as the remedy for his nutritional problem “is relatively simple and straightforward”. However, Times‘ article on the topic doubted Steve Jobs’ hormone imbalance excuse/explaination and even suspected he might have a second cancer (Steve was striken with pancreatic cancer in 2004):

[...] No illness involving a combination of a hormone imbalance and a loss of proteins that causes dramatic weight loss could be remedied with a simple nutritional fix, Lustig says.

A hormonal imbalance would indeed suggest an endocrine problem, like diabetes, says Lustig, but many of the conditions that cause the body to lose vital proteins are not endocrine in nature. If a patient were losing the proteins through urine, diabetes could be an explanation, but so could other conditions, including multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes symptoms ranging from bone pain to weight loss. 

Pancreatic cancer could also cause protein loss during the digestive process, Lustig says, which would suggest a recurrence of the malignant tumor that Jobs battled 2004. It is unlikely, however, that Jobs’ original cancer has spread, Lustig says. Since pancreatic cancer is so swift and deadly, “We have to assume he was cured of that,” Lustig says. “If he weren’t, he would have been dead years ago.” But having developed one endocrine tumor increases the patient’s risk for developing a second.

Another explanation for a protein deficiency is that the body is simply not producing enough of them — a symptom of conditions including hypothyroidism, in which the body underproduces necessary hormones, or Cushing’s syndrome, Lustig says. But both conditions cause weight gain, not loss. Another possible cause is celiac disease, in which a gluten intolerance diminishes the body’s ability to absorb nutrients, but that’s a digestive order, not the result of a hormone imbalance, Lustig says. What’s more, almost none of the hypothesized disorders involving hormone imbalance and protein deficiency can be treated with a basic change in nutrition. “There is no one disease process that encompasses these three medical threads,” says Lustig.