It was officially reported yesterday that Steve Jobs died of respiratory arrest. On Monday, Bloomberg reported, “Local public health officials reportedly determined that Jobs was at home in the Northern California city of Palo Alto on October 5 when he stopped breathing at around 3pm, an underlying cause listed as a cancerous tumor in his pancreas.”

Connie Guglielmo, Rochelle Garner and Jason Gale reported for Bloomberg this morning that Apple CEO Steve Job may need to have his pancreas removed, if Robert Thomas, head of surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, is correct. Thomas was the first to perform the Whipple operation—which involves removing parts of the pancreas, bile duct and small intestine, and which sometimes results in having to remove the entire pancreas. Jobs underwent a procedure similar to the Whipple operation after he was diagnosed with a rare type of pancreatic cancer in 2004. It should be noted, though, that Thomas is not Jobs’ doctor, and doesn’t know the details of his condition.