According to Steve Jobs' death certificate, issued Monday by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, respiratory arrest brought on by a metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor was the official cause of the Apple co-founder's death on October 5, Bloomberg News reported.ORRECTION: A previous version of this article included statistics about the survival rates for pancreatic cancer. Jobs suffered from neuroendocrine tumor in his pancreas. According to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Only 5 percent of pancreatic tumors arise in the islet cells.