http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/31/eveningnews/main3776580.shtml

When Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez was in Iraq, military doctors, he says, misdiagnosed his skin cancer.

They called it “a wart.”

Sgt. Rodriguez III was a father, a soldier, an artist and an actor. He loved life and the Marines. But skin cancer ravaged his body, whittling it down to 80 lbs in 18 months.