Apple Computer Inc chief executive Steve Jobs has had successful surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer, the company's co-founder told employees in a company-wide e-mail on Sunday that was made available to reporters.
Jobs, 49, wrote in the e-mail sent from his hospital bed that he plans to return to work next month after recuperating this month.
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In his absence, Tim Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations, will run the Cupertino, California-based company, maker of the Macintosh computer and popular iPod portable digital music player.
"This weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from my pancreas," Jobs wrote in the e-mail."I had a very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell neuro-endocrine tumor, which repre-sents about 1 percent of the total cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical removal if diagnosed in time [mine was]."
He added that he "will not require any chemotherapy or radiation treatments."
Bill Campbell, an Apple board member and also chairman and former chief executive of financial software company Intuit Corp, said in a telephone interview that based on his conversations with Job's doctors that, "The doctors felt very confident that the surgery was successful and [Jobs'] prognosis is excellent."
Campbell said that Cook has the board's full confidence.
"With Tim, we're confident that company will really run very well," Campbell said.
Cook, in the same phone interview, declined to comment on when Jobs' cancer was diagnosed or where he was being treated.
Jobs is also chairman and chief executive of animated film studio Pixar, which made such blockbusters as Finding Nemo. An Apple spokeswoman said that Ed Catmull, Pixar's president and who already runs the company's day-to-day operations, will oversee the company until Jobs' return.
Jobs wrote that the far more common kind of pancreatic cancer, which he did not have, "is called adenocarcinoma, which is currently not curable and usually carries a life expectancy of around one year after diagnosis."
"I mention this because when one hears `pancreatic cancer' [or Googles it], one immediately encounters this far more common and deadly form, which, thank God, is not what I had," Jobs wrote.
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