How did this happen? UK's Daily Mail shares the story of Peter Cura, 31, who died from complications of kidney cancer, after his kidney cancer was misdiagnosed 37 times. Cura kept going in to see doctors, complaining of severe back pain. After undergoing diagnostic scans and six operations, no one accurately diagnosed his physical problems as cancer. At one point, Cura thought he might have cancer, but the doctors told him he was suffering from kidney stones. Cura insisted on a CAT scan. The CAT scan revealed he was in kidney failure. When they surgically removed the failed kidney, the physicians found a three inch tumor. By that time, the cancer had spread. The diagnosis became incurable kidney cancer.

Cura, a carpenter from Rainham, died last week. In an interview before his death, he spoke of his anger that the delay of a timely cancer diagnosis would cost him his life. He felt great sadness that he would not see his young children grow up. "I mainly feel anger with the doctor I was seeing at the time," said Cura, "It crossed my mind that it might be cancer. But when I asked the doctor he said, "Definitely not." It seems Cura was doing all the right things to try to get proper medical care for himself, and the healthcare system failed him miserably. What a tragic, tragic loss, for Cura and his family.