Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
He had pancreatic cancer which is a VERY deadly type. It's essentially a rapidly approaching death sentence. He lived for an additional seven years so I'd say he got about as much time as anyone can expect.
I'd think were he not spending the last seven years running his company and made his health his full-time job he probably could have survived. But who knows. All those speeches he gave, where he had hair, were clearly displaying the man was not on chemo at the time. And if the founder of EA studios is to be believed (who once worked with Jobs), Jobs was a huge control freak, probably owing to the fact he couldn't just put the damned company down and supported by the fact that he only left his CEO post about two weeks ago.