Steve Jobs, who is suffering from hormone disruption.

For weeks rumors about the health of Steve Jobs - Apple now has the boss a statement delivered in their own right: He was not renewed because of a cancer so emaciated, but due to a hormonal disorder.
  New York / Cupertino - Apple CEO Jobs said he needed only a "relatively simple" treatment. His leadership at Apple, he will be retained. "A hormone imbalance in my body has robbed the proteins, which he needs in order to be healthy," said Jobs in writing. "Sophisticated blood tests" have now confirmed this diagnosis.
The rumors about the health status of jobs had in recent weeks strengthened after Apple announced, Jobs will not be as usual, the opening speech at Apple's Macworld trade show hold.
Philip Schiller, the marketing director of the company, the speech, which usually also includes product launches, on tomorrow, Tuesday, to Jobs' body hold. The rumors also had several times the market price of Apple Inc. clearly fall - Jobs is regarded as a guarantee for the success of the company. In response to today's news, the Apple shares on the New York Stock Exchange around four percent. Analyzed the stock market as an end to speculation about jobs.
The company's founders was a little more than four years to pancreatic cancer, the disease had claimed to own but overcome.
Its clearly visible weight loss in the past year, the rumors about a renewed outbreak transported. Now, Jobs said that it is merely a "problem with the nutrient supply," he had with the treatment already begun. This will however take some time to come: He had all the weight did not "in a week or one months lost," said Jobs, according to his doctors expected that "at least until late spring will last until I have recovered ".
The company Apple published alongside an opinion: "Apple has a lot of luck, Steve as a manager and CEO, and he deserves our full and unwavering support." The Apple will he and his executive also definitely get.
Jobs said in the letter that he would continue as the Apple chief available. "I will be the first who resigns and the Board informed when I no longer my duties as head of Apple can fulfill."