Billings woman finds new gratitude after surviving cancer diagnosis

BILLINGS, Mont. – As Americans gather for Thanksgiving, one Billings woman is celebrating with a newfound sense of gratitude. Last year, Liter visited Intermountain Health's Lockwood Clinic seeking answers for kidney pain. Instead, she left with a stage 3 lung cancer diagnosis. "When Stefanie first told me I had lung cancer, I was devastated. My dad died of lung cancer. He made it 18 months. So that's what I was looking at. I was thinking, my God, I'm not going to be here much longer," said Teresa Liter, a lung cancer patient. Liter was not alone in that moment. Her primary care provider, Stefanie Rickhoff, immediately took action, staying after hours to meet with Liter and her husband to discuss next steps. "It was super surprising and a scary diagnosis. But I got everyt