MSNBC is Reporting that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer
Sloan-Kettering is reporting that it is early stage and was a tumor was removed this morning at the facility.
Prognosis is good.
The cancer was discovered during a routine, annual exam late last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
The court said a CAT scan revealed a tumor measuring about 1 centimeter across the center of the pancreas.
Court officials said the 75-year-old Ginsburg had surgery Thursday at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, said her surgeon. Dr. Murray Brennan. This was according to a release issued by the court.
Ginsburg, a justice since 1993, had colon cancer earlier in her tenure.
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Wikipedia:
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, New York) is an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and generally votes with the liberal wing of the court. She is the second woman and the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court. In 2008, Forbes Magazine rated her as the 72nd most powerful woman in the world, down from 23rd in 2007.
Prior to her appointment with the Supreme Court, Ginsburg served as a federal judge for 13 years on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In practice, she spent a considerable portion of her career as an advocate for the equal citizenship status of women and men as a constitutional principle. She engaged in advocacy as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, and in the 1970s, was a member of the ACLU's Board and one of its General Counsel. She served as a professor at Rutgers University School of Law and Columbia Law School. Justice Bader Ginsburg is currently hospitalized with pancreatic cancer.