two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both her breasts. and then weeks later a bombshell admission by her doctors. they told me basically you didn t have cancer and you never did. what makes doctors think she s sick? that biopsy showing she has cancer actually belongs to someone else. a health department investigation says a lab technician is most likely working with two specimens at the same time. by mistake the worker takes another woman s tissue and puts it inside a container labeled with darrie s identification. something should have been done to tell me that there wasn t anything wrong with me before i had a radical double mastectomy. you make the diagnosis with a
breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer. she gets a second opinion. two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both her breasts. and then weeks later a bombshell admission by her doctors. they told me basically you didn t have cancer and you never did. what makes doctors think she s sick? that biopsy showing she has cancer actually belongs to someone else. a health department investigation says a lab technician is most likely working with two specimens at the same time. by mistake the worker takes another woman s tissue and puts it inside a container labeled
35-year-old derry eason s breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer. she gets a second opinion. two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both her breasts. and then weeks later a bombshell admission by her doctors. they told me basically you didn t have cancer and you never did. what makes doctors think she s sick? that biopsy showing she has cancer actually belongs to someone else. a health department investigation says a lab technician is most likely working with two specimens at the same time. by mistake the worker takes another woman s tissue and puts it inside a container labeled
i m responsible for this behavior that led us to be in this place. in many ways things are not that much different than they were yesterday. the behavior did was problematic, to say the least. destructive, to say the most, caused many stresses and strains in my marriage, but i am pleased and blessed that she has given me a second chance. but the question is, will new yorkers do the same? yesterday, new york city mayoral candidate anthony weiner with a bombshell admission that the same lewed only behavior that forced him to give up his congressional seat continued well after he resigned. already some contenders are telling beener to get out of the race following new disclosures about sexting. they re not alone. take a look at editorial pages from three big new york papers with wide national leadership. the daily news.
gretchen: good morning, everybody. hopefully you had a good monday. major news, three big stories that we re focusing on today. we ll get to those in just a moment. first some headlines. bombshell admission from a list actress angelina jolie underwasn t double mastectomy. she carries a gene that increases her risk for cancer. as a result, her chances of developing cancer now less than 5%. she made the announcement in an article saying i wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy, but it is one i am very happy that i made. i can tell my children that they don t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. her mother died of ovarian cancer at the young age of 56.