• @gAlienLifeformOP
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    73 days ago

    This news org did a story more focused on Susan Balfour’s case (archived) a year ago shortly after she filed her lawsuit,

    Balfour first asked prison medical staff for a mammogram in June 2011.

    After that visit, doctors recommended she return for follow-up annual mammograms to monitor any changes in calcifications found in her right breast. By 2016, doctors recommended she have mammograms every six months.

    Instead, Balfour went up to three years between follow-ups, according to the lawsuit.

    It wasn’t until Nov. 3, 2021, that a biopsy revealed Balfour had an invasive, malignant cancer in her breast, court documents state.

    The lawsuit alleges VitalCore was aware of the doctors’ findings from the November visit and did not inform Balfour about the cancer until days before her release on Dec. 27, 2021.

    Less than a week after leaving prison, Balfour went to the University of Mississippi Medical Center where she had another mammogram and full testing, which the doctor used to diagnose her cancer as Stage 4.

    One thing that’s not in that excerpt is the fact that her release from prison happened after the prison approved her parole request after years of denying those, and that’s suspiciously convenient for this prison system that now doesn’t have to pay for Balfour’s cancer treatment.