The real final exam.

Editor’s Note: Every departing Medical Student, Graduate Student, Urology Research Resident, and Post-Doctoral Fellow trained in Dr. Donald S. Coffey’s laboratory or classroom for 4 decades has been given this “real final exam”—in either oral, written, or both forms. Some believe the wisdom in it passed on to the next generations of cancer researchers is as vast and generous and dedicated to the eradication of cancer as the heart of its author. Coffey passed the test, and then disseminated the answers for all students-now including those new, young 21 Century investigators at this meeting.