WECT morning co-anchor Kim Ratcliff has let viewers know she will be off the air for the next few weeks as she deals with a health issue.

An injury earlier in the year, when she fell and hit her head, is being credited with saving her life. While doing a scan to check her condition and to determine what caused the fall that took her off the air at the Wilmington, N.C. NBC affiliate for a time, doctors noticed a nodule on one of her lungs.

“When a few months went by and the nodule didn’t go away, I was told to go get basically a biopsy, which is called a bronchoscopy in the medical world,” Kim explained. “It determined I had something called adenocarcinoma, a very slow growing cancer, and later they found out it’s a Stage 1 cancer basically.”

Ratcliff said she travel to Duke Universit

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