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Medical blunder

When she heard the diagnosis of invasive lobular

carcinoma, Darrie Eason had but one thought: Please don't let me die.

Four months and a double mastectomy later, doctors told Eason that her

tissue sample had been mislabeled, and that she never had cancer.

"I didn't know what to believe," said Eason, a 35-year-old single mother

from Long Beach. "They told me I had...

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