By Bill Galluccio
Mar 4, 2021
A Kentucky woman remains embroiled in a years-long legal battle with a hospital that missed her cancer diagnosis and then allegedly covered up their mistake, according to a report by
Kim Johnson was referred for a mammogram at Fleming County Hospital over concerns that a lump on her breast may have been cancerous.
In January 2015, Johnson was relieved when she received a letter saying that there "no evidence of cancer."
Unfortunately, her symptoms continued, and after ten months, she went to another hospital for a second opinion. That's when she learned she had stage 4 breast cancer, and it spread to her lymph nodes and bones. She was told she had less than one year to live.