When my urologist called me in early October of 2009 to tell me that the CAT-Scan revealed a 7 cm tumor in my large kidney, I had no idea what my prognosis was. My wife and I had just gained some traction again after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer seven months earlier. It turned out that luckily, if kidney cancer is caught before it has spread outside the organ. A mesothelioma prognosis though is very different. Each year in the United States about 3,000 people get diagnosed with t...