ORLANDO, Fla. – A sudden and unexpected illness last year revealed a hidden life-threatening condition for News 6 Traffic Safety Expert Steven Montiero.
Last April, Montiero sought treatment for what he thought were symptoms of COVID-19 only to find out cancer -- not the coronavirus -- was what he’d been battling.
The discovery came only after a hospital stay for double lung bacterial pneumonia. “There was something (concerning) when (the doctor) told me.
You don’t show me a scan like that and say, ‘You have a golf-ball sized tumor on the bottom of your kidney,’ and you expect anybody to think it’s just OK,” Montiero said. [FULL STORY: News 6′s Trooper Steve diagnosed with kidney cancer amid COVID-19 pandemic] His doctor told him he would