Supreme Court Justice Has Pancreatic Cancer Surgery 2009

[lonestarnot]

By John Gever, Senior Editor, MedPage Today
Published: February 05, 2009


NEW YORK, Feb. 5 -- Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the Supreme Court, had surgery here today for a small, apparently localized pancreatic tumor.

It was removed by Murray Brennan, M.D., a surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, according to an announcement from the court. Dr. Brennan, formerly the chairman of surgery at Memorial, is the Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology.

The statement said the tumor was spotted in a CT scan performed during a routine annual exam in late January at the National Institutes of Health's clinical center in Bethesda, Md.


It measured 1 cm in diameter and was in the center of the pancreas. Ginsburg, who was appointed to the court by President Clinton in 1993, had reported no symptoms.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/pancreaticdiseases/12766?xid=ob_&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=gastro
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I guess she's ok. It's early sorry!

[lamp_shade]

1. 2/5/09???

[Jackpine Radical]

2. !!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. while THAT is annoying ...

even more annoying to me are the words "CT scan performed during a routine annual exam"... what the fresh hell? a multi thousand dollar test as part of a routine exam??? wow...my ins company would explode...

sP

[lonestarnot]

5. oops sorry.

[Orrex]

4. Check in here if you initially thought of a SCOTUS Justice other than Bader Ginsberg

[lamp_shade]

6. Checking in.

Oy!!

[lonestarnot]

7. Sorry.

[left is right]

10. I was hoping this posting was referring to

fat tony or uncle tom. I would have been happy even if it referred to robbing roberts or the saintly alito

[pipoman]

8. The difference between access to healthcare by the 1%

and the 99%.

The statement said the tumor was spotted in a CT scan performed during a routine annual exam

Does anyone reading this have health coverage which would allow for a CT scan as part of "a routine annual exam" without symptoms or other lab indications of a need for a CT? Oh the wealthy..

[CTyankee]

9. I thought she had had a history of a pancreatic problem before 2009.

I could be wrong, but I thought that was the case...