Action to Cure Kidney Cancer

Stephen J Gould was a leading evolutionary biologist on the faculties of Harvard and New York University. In 1982, we was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma and found out through his research into the disease that the median life span for someone with abdominal mesothelioma was 8 months. But, he considered what that meant for him and did not despair and wrote the following essay. He died in 2002 at the age of 60, 20 years after his original diagnosis, from a different type of cancer.