LINCOLN - The state of Nebraska has agreed to pay $385,000 to a woman who sued the Lincoln Regional Center for delaying her physician-ordered mammogram for more than a year, then denying many radiation treatments after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

But what is profoundly important about Ruth Cecetka's case and settlement is the significant changes the regional center has agreed to make going forward, one of her lawyers said Wednesday.

"Ruth's case and the settlement that we reached won't just affect her but every single person that is a patient at the Lincoln Regional Center," said attorney Kathleen Neary, who represented Cecetka along with co-counsel Elizabeth Govaerts and Disability Rights Nebraska.

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