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35-year-old neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal stage 4 lung cancer.
Paul Kalanithi was 36, not 35, when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer.
Full reasoning
Stanford Medicine's obituary for Paul Kalanithi states that he was diagnosed in May 2013 and that he died at age 37 on March 9, 2015. Since Kalanithi was born on April 1, 1977, a May 2013 diagnosis means he was 36 years old at diagnosis, not 35.
A separate American Lung Association review of When Breath Becomes Air says the same thing directly: Kalanithi "was 36" when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.
So the post gets his age at diagnosis wrong by one year.
2 sources
- Paul Kalanithi, writer and neurosurgeon, dies at 37
In May 2013, Kalanithi, who had never smoked, was diagnosed with stage-4 non-small-cell EGFR-positive lung cancer... He was 37.
- When Breath Becomes Air: A Review | American Lung Association
Kalanithi was 36 and nearing the end of residency as a neurosurgeon at Stanford University when he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer.