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Cancer
癌癥
Jobs would later speculate that his cancer was caused by the grueling year that he spent, starting in 1997, running both Apple and Pixar.
喬布斯后來推測，自己之所以會得癌癥，是因為1997年辛苦工作了一整年，同時管理著蘋果公司和皮克斯。
As he drove back and forth, he had developed kidney stones and other ailments,
由于兩頭奔忙，他患上了腎結石和其他疾病，
and he would come home so exhausted that he could barely speak.
到家后會虛脫得說不出話來。
"That's probably when this cancer started growing, because my immune system was pretty weak at that time," he said.
“癌癥可能就是那個時候開始生長的，因為當時我的免疫系統非常弱。”他說道。
There is no evidence that exhaustion or a weak immune system causes cancer.
并沒有證據表明疲勞和免疫系統薄弱會導致癌癥。
However, his kidney problems did indirectly lead to the detection of his cancer.
不過，喬布斯的腎臟問題間接讓醫生發現了癌癥。
In October 2003 he happened to run into the urologist who had treated him,
2003年10月，喬布斯偶然碰到了自己的泌尿科醫生，
and she asked him to get a CAT scan of his kidneys and ureter.
她讓喬布斯作一下腎臟和輸尿管的CAT掃描。
It had been five years since his last scan.
他之前一次CAT掃描檢查還是在5年前。
The new scan revealed nothing wrong with his kidneys,
這一次的掃描顯示腎臟沒有問題，
but it did show a shadow on his pancreas, so she asked him to schedule a pancreatic study. He didn't.
但卻發現胰臟有一層陰影，于是，她叫喬布斯安排一次胰腺檢查，但他并未聽從。
As usual, he was good at willfully ignoring inputs that he did not want to process. But she persisted.
一如既往，喬布斯會刻意忽視自己不想處理的事情，但是醫生堅持一定要作檢查。
"Steve, this is really important," she said a few days later. "You need to do this."
“史蒂夫，這很重要，”幾天后她對喬布斯說，“你需要檢查一下。”
