Steve Jobs regretted refusing an early surgery for cancer

Walter Isaacson, official biographer of Steve Jobs, said the Apple co-founder declined to undergo early surgery for the pancreatic cancer that eventually took his life.

Isaacson said that Jobs who died on October 5 at the age of 56, told him he eventually regretted the decision to put off the operation.

"But Steve Jobs doesn't get operated on right away," Isaacson said, stressing out that Jobs tried to treat it with diet, went to spiritualists, and went through various ways of doing it macrobiotically but refused to undergo an operation.

The biographer said, "Soon everybody is telling him, 'Quit trying to treat it with all these roots and vegetables and things, just get operated on." But Jobs agreed to be operated on just nine months after.

In 2004 Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer and received a liver transplant in 2009.

The 656-page book, telling everything about this computer genius is being published by Simon & Schuster and will be starting to go on sale on Monday.