Cancer may kill Steve Jobs in 6 weeks: Tabloid

BANGALORE, INDIA: The deteriorating health of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is back in news as it is rumoured that he is being treated for cancer and may only have weeks left to live.

Citing some photos published by a tabloid newspaper in the US, The National Enquirer, which allegedly show Jobs looking "skeletal" outside the Stanford Cancer Centre in Palo Alto, California, the Australian IT said that Apple founder was looking extremely thin and frail.

In January this year Jobs has taken his third medical leave since 2004, sending its shares tumbling.

The speculation about the poor health of Jobs comes from a doctor's assessment of the tabloid photos. The tabloid claims that the man behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad is stricken with pancreatic cancer and may have just six weeks to live.

“Judging from the photos, he is close to terminal. I would say he has six weeks,” The Enquirer quoted the doctor as saying.

The Wall Street Journal had last year unearthed details of Jobs obtaining a secret liver transplant, reportedly conducted in Memphis, Tennessee. Jobs himself later confirmed the news.

The photos were said to have been taken on February 8.