Justice Ginsburg completes three weeks of radiation treatment

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment, NPR's Nina Totenberg reports. She was treated on an outpatient basis after a "localized cancerous tumor" was discovered on her pancreas. According to a statement issued by the court, she also had a stent inserted in a bile duct. The physicians at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she was treated, said there was no evidence of disease elsewhere in her body. 

The Supreme Court issued a statement saying "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."

The court statement says she "tolerated treatment well" and other than canceling a stay in Santa Fe, her usual summer routing, she has "maintained an active schedule." She spent the last month instead with "a busy schedule in New York, often going out in the evening to the movies, the opera and the theater," Totenberg reports.