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2019-08-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

U.S. Justice Ginsburg treated for pancreatic cancer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed a three-week course of radiation therapy to treat a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, a court spokeswoman said on Friday.

The 86-year old justice, who has had previous cancer scares, tolerated the therapy well and no further treatment is required, spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement.

An abnormality was first detected in July, and the tumor was identified following a biopsy performed on July 31 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

"She canceled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule," Arberg said.

"The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the spokeswoman added.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-08-23 16:32|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I'm beginning to think she's bulletproof, too.

Posted by gorb 2019-08-23 19:06|| 2019-08-23 19:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Reminds me of the happy things they said about her health earlier this year, right before she missed oral arguments to have tumors removed from her lungs.

Anyone know what kind of reputation MSK has? Wikipedia mentions that they treat a lot of cancer, and Google seems to think that this particular radiation treatment is experimental.

Posted by Iblis 2019-08-23 19:13|| 2019-08-23 19:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I used to say, no one laying on the ground looks up and asks "Dear Lord, one more day at the office". Guess this is the exception.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-23 19:23|| 2019-08-23 19:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The Soviets, with their rudimentary medical technology, could keep their leaders alive (even if comatose) for a long time. Guess we will find out just how long modern medical technology can keep a body alive.

Posted by Phinens Dingle9259 2019-08-23 19:48|| 2019-08-23 19:48|| Front Page Top

#5 See: "Keith Richards"

Posted by Frank G 2019-08-23 20:18|| 2019-08-23 20:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Excuse you. Keith Richards has been a zombie for over eight hundred years.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-23 20:55|| 2019-08-23 20:55|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't wish cancer on most people. But ya gotta wonder how many more operations she has in her.

Toes up by July of 2020 is my bet.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-08-23 20:57|| 2019-08-23 20:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Memorial Sloan Kettering is number two in the country according to this, Iblis.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-23 21:04|| 2019-08-23 21:04|| Front Page Top

#9 The cancer, the accidents, the still semi-rigorous schedule... I honestly can see her making it past 2020 election season (which is not that far away, honestly), but how much longer? She is not in good health. I really hope for her sake that if she is still alive after the elections she resigns. There is no way she survives to see 2024 pass.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-08-23 21:08|| 2019-08-23 21:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Broken ribs, heart surgery, I think this her 4th cancer procedure. Maybe there are some others. She is old, frail, and getting weaker by the day.

I wish her peace whatever she chooses but yes I wish that she would resign.

Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-08-23 21:18|| 2019-08-23 21:18|| Front Page Top

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