Walter Isaacson describes how to use first tried for the treatment of pancreatic cancer with alternative therapies, including healing

regretted his decision to delay the onset of potentially life-saving surgery for pancreatic cancer, his biographer has revealed.

After being diagnosed with cancer in 2004, Jobs has launched a series of alternative therapies, including spiritual healing, said Walter Isaacson, the author of the forthcoming biography of Steve Jobs.

despite calls from his family to have an operation, Jobs refused, Isaacson said in an interview on CBS News 60 Minutes to air Sunday.

The Apple co-founder, who died this month after a long battle with the disease, said that there was a very slow rate of growth of pancreatic cancer, and that his only was the 5% "can actually be cured."

Isaacson said, after his diagnosis, "trying to deal with the regime, go to spiritualists, through several ways to macrobiotically -. And it does not receive an operation"

After surgery, Jobs told his employers, but downplayed the seriousness of his condition.
A piece on the CBS News Web site said the interview includes "some of the best stories of the biography, including the fact that Steve Jobs had made known the man who turned out be her biological father before he knew. "