When Lost Paperwork Can Mean Life or Death

What my mishandled cancer diagnosis reveals about opportunities in health care.

Iwas diagnosed with malignant melanoma when I was a teenager. It’s the rarest, deadliest form of skin cancer. The disease is typically easy to detect and highly treatable in its early stages. But left unchecked, tumors grow aggressively and spread until, in sometimes as little as six weeks, the cancer becomes incurable.