Justice Ginsburg has been treated for cancer twice before, attributing her survival partly to the medical care she received at the National Institutes of Health.
“Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H.,” she said in the 2013 interview. “That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage” in 2009.
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She has broken ribs twice, in 2012 and in November. In 2014, she underwent a heart procedure.
She has proved resilient in the aftermath of those episodes. After her most recent fall, she was back on the bench to hear arguments during the Supreme Court’s two-week sitting that began on Nov. 26.
The new tumors could be primary lung cancers, meaning they originated in the lung. Or they could be growths that spread to her lung from cancer in another organ.
“When you have two lesions in the lung, it usually means it came from someplace else,” said Dr. Raja Flores, chairman of thoracic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan. “It’s probably something that spread from the pancreas to the lungs.”
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