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"While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a the having recourse of cancer," journalist Joe Nocera wrote in a column.

Nocera said he spoke to the Apple CEO about his health.

"Because the conversation was off the make a memorandum of, I cannot disclose the sort of Mr. Jobs told me," Nocera said.

An Apple spokesman was not just now turn to account in spite of comment.

In 2004, Jobs, 53, announced he had undergone prosperous surgery to remove a rare type of pancreatic cancer.

Concerns encircling his health roared hindmost last month, when a thinner-than-usual Jobs introduced the latest iteration of the iPhone at a conference in San Francisco.

Apple, which earliest attributed the weight loss to a common bug, has said repeatedly Jobs' soundness is a special matter. The lack of disclosure from the company — well-known for its secrecy — caused investors and analysts to fret.

On Wednesday, the Times reported Jobs had told associates he was doing properly and was cancer free.

Citing people close to Jobs, the article said Jobs had told associates and Apple directors he was behavior with nutritional problems in the wake of his cancer surgery and that he had had surgery this year to fix a problem contributing to his weight loss.

(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein; editing by Todd Eastham)


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