Ruth Bader Ginsburg remains clear of cancer, the Supreme Court justice told CNN this week
her most recent cancer diagnosis last summer, completing a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a malignant tumor on her pancreas. In a statement announcing the diagnosis, the Supreme Court said that the “tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” and that no further treatment was necessary.
She returned to the bench in February before receiving the pancreatic cancer diagnosis in August. Ginsburg had already beat the disease twice before, having been treated for colorectal cancer in 1999 and an earlier bout of pancreatic cancer in 2009.just before Thanksgiving last year with “chills and a fever,” but was released a day later.
Ginsburg’s professed bill of clean health — which CNN noted she delivered while “sounding energized and speaking animatedly” — is sure to soothe fears on the left that she will remain in her seat on the court for the foreseeable future. She has repeatedly batted down concerns regarding her health while maintaining an active schedule of public appearances and keeping up with court duties. Shein July by recalling: “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. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.
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