Actress Maral Farjad Opened Up About Battling Cancer

One reason for our surprise: Though his seven-year battle with cancer sparked an ongoing rumor mill about his health, Jobs mostly kept quiet about his disease, revealing only minimal information. Whether that was for business reasons (to avoid hurting Apple's stock price, perhaps) or because he was an intensely private person, we probably will never know. But he’s certainly not the only one — millions of Americans stay hush-hush about illnesses like cancer, diabetes, and depression.