According to death certificate of Steve Jobs, issued Monday by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, respiratory arrest caused by a "metastatic neuroendocrine pancreatic tumor," was the official cause of death of the co-founder of Apple, the October 5, Bloomberg News.
Bloomberg also said that Jobs' occupation was listed as "businessman" in his death certificate.
In a statement issued on 05 October, the Jobs family did not specify the cause of death, but noted that the use "died peacefully surrounded by his family today."
Jobs had fought his illness for several years and the AP notes Jobs "lived more than seven years after being diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor -. One less common type of slower growth and more treatable form of pancreatic cancer "
The first jobs to publicly disclose their health problems in 2004, the same year he underwent surgery to remove a tumor from his pancreas and had a medical license. He had a liver transplant in 2009 and took a medical leave of absence seconds of that year, and then another this year.