What was the name of the cancer that caused Steve Jobs’s death in 2011?

Steve Jobs died from complications of a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2011. This was a rare type of pancreatic cancer, distinct from the more common pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Jobs was diagnosed in 2003 with an islet-cell neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. He initially pursued alternative treatments and later underwent surgery in 2004. Public reports about his health often used the broad phrase “pancreatic cancer,” which can obscure the specific diagnosis.

Jobs took medical leave from Apple several times before resigning as chief executive in August 2011. He died on October 5, 2011, at age 56. His death certificate listed respiratory arrest as the immediate cause and metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor as the underlying condition.