Biographer: Mortality motivated Steve Jobs

Upon being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs put off surgery for nine months against the advice of his doctors while he tried to treat the disease with a special macrobiotic diet -- a decision he later regretted, his biographer said.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?i=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?a=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_tech?i=lF-6OfECp_o:glUsdZrJ3Dg:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/cnn_tech/~4/lF-6OfECp_o" height="1" width="1"/> [More]