Apple Chairman Steve Jobs’s Health Reports Since 2003: Timeline
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The following timeline details reports about Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs’s health since his cancer diagnosis in 2003. Jobs resigned yesterday and took the role of chairman, and Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook was named CEO to succeed him.
October 2003: Jobs is diagnosed with cancer in his pancreas and tries to treat the illness by switching to a special diet to avoid surgery, according to a 2008 article in Fortune magazine citing people familiar with the matter. Apple decides not to tell investors after consulting lawyers, the magazine said.