Justice Ruth Nader Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer

[Danmel]

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Source: CNN

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter

Updated 2:38 PM ET, Fri August 23, 2019

Washington (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.

"The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the court said.
Here is the full statement from the Supreme Court:
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor. As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."
This story is breaking and will be updated.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-cancer-supreme-court/index.html

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Just what we needed now. Praying

[PoliticAverse]

1. NPR article on the issue...

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753699013/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-underwent-another-round-of-cancer-treatment-this-sum

[MBS]

8. Thanks.

This one is particularly informative.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City," a statement from the Supreme Court read. "The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor.
As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time.

Shortly before her new round of treatment, Ginsburg sat for an interview with NPR, and her resilience was on full display.
There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months," Ginsburg said. "That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I," she added with a smile, "am very much alive.

During Ginsburg's three weeks of treatment in New York, she kept up a busy schedule in New York, often going out in the evening to the movies, the opera and the theater. At the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, where Fiddler on the Roof is playing, word spread during intermission that Ginsburg was there, and the audience stood for several minutes applauding the diminutive justice.

God I love this woman.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It's also good to check the LBN column after posting. Avoids embarrassment. . . . nt

[jberryhill]

3. Was her first marriage to Ralph, or is that a typo?

[onetexan]

4. Dear Justice Ginsberg, please hang in there...at least for another couple years till we are rid of

this goblin in the WH

[Vinca]

5. I swear this is the toughest woman ever to have lived.

[DesertRat]

6. Oh good god...

[Hoyt]

7. Sorry to hear. She is one of our greatest. Not good news.

[The Mouth]

9. And you know cheeto Benito will

appoint someone to replace, if heaven forbid she passes before the next president is sworn in, even if it's January 2021. And they will laugh.

[Bayard]

10. tRump and Moscow Mitch are salivating

[mahina]

11. Bader?

[Yonnie3]

12. Locking as a Duplicate

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