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Feb. 13, 2009 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center today following her pancreatic cancer surgery earlier this month.
Ginsburg, 75, had her spleen and part of her pancreas removed on Feb. 5 after a routine CAT scan showed a lesion, measuring about 1 centimeter across, in the center of her pancreas
That lesion turned out to be benign, but Ginsburg's surgeon – Murray Brennan, MD, FACS – found a smaller, previously unidentified tumor which was malignant, according to a statement released today by the Supreme Court.
Ginsburg's pancreatic cancer was found early, in what doctors call stage I, and it hasn't spread, the Supreme Court states.
He took out two lesions from her pancreas, she needed a partial pancreatectomy and splenectomy back then.
This was her surgeon.
Ginsburg Leaves Hospital; Prognosis on Cancer Is Good
The colon cancer diagnosed in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has apparently not spread, and was discovered at an early stage by accident because the Justice suffered symptoms from an unrelated abdominal infection, the Supreme Court announced today.
The 66-year-old Justice went home from Washington Hospital Center today, 11 days after surgeons removed her sigmoid colon, a two-foot length of bowel that makes up the lower third of the large intestine. Doctors have classified her cancer as being in the second of four stages; about 75 percent of Stage 2 colon cancer patients are cured, experts say.
The Justice is very lucky to have had this picked up incidentally, said Dr. Harmon Eyre, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. If it had been left alone, it would have advanced to another stage.
In a written statement, the Court's public information officer, Kathleen Arberg, said a small tumor, measuring about 2 centimeters by 3 centimeters, had invaded the Justice's colon and entered the outer muscle but did not penetrate through it. Subsequent tests showed no evidence that the disease had spread to the lymph nodes or any other organ.
The tests results are a good sign, Dr. Eyre said, but they are no guarantee. In some patients, he said, there can be microscopic spread that does not turn up in early biopsies.
Justice Ginsberg became ill this summer while teaching in a law school program on the Greek island of Crete. Doctors at first thought she had acute diverticulitis, a disorder of the large intestine, but later diagnosed colon cancer.
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Now, it turns out, the diverticulitis diagnosis may have been correct after all; according to Ms. Arberg's statement, Dr. Lee Smith, the surgeon at Washington Hospital Center who performed the Sept. 17 operation on Justice Ginsburg, also discovered a perforation higher in her bowel. The perforation, which was not malignant, caused her abdominal infection.
Despite her hospitalization, Justice Ginsburg has been participating in the Court's recent work, although whether she has been involved by telephone, written memo or in some other way was unclear. The Court today issued a list of nine cases that it intended to hear this term; there was no announcement that Justice Ginsberg was absent, as is customary.
Dr. Eyre said most patients in Justice Ginsburg's condition needed at least a month to six weeks to recuperate from surgery, possibly longer in her case if there were complications from the perforated bowel. She should heal completely, he said, without any need for a colostomy, and may not need any chemotherapy or radiation. Doctors should make that determination after evaluating samples of her cancerous tissue.
Sept 17th
11 days after sigmoidectomy
always lucky to be picked up INCIDENTALLY
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/29/us/ginsburg-leaves-hospital-prognosis-on-cancer-is-good.html
can someone help me find the right Dr. Lee Smith
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Retire from the US Supreme Court in January, 2019
While the Nation is preoccupied with the appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, it appears there will soon be another vacancy on the US Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had a re-occurrence of malignant melanoma, she has told her law clerks. Ginsburg was treated in 1999 for colon cancer and had surgery in 2009 for pancreatic cancer.
She has told key Democratic members of the Senate about her medical condition, including ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee Dianne Feinstein. This explains in part the "take no prisoners" attitude of the Democrats during the Kavanaugh nomination, carefully orchestrating weak 37 year old allegations against Kavanaugh by Women he barely remembers knowing in High School and College.
Kavanaugh is a player in this drama. He's in the wrong place at the wrong time . President Donald J Trump will be replacing Notorious RBG, the lovechild of the left, and so will remake the Supreme Court for a generation. The Democrats simply must win back the Senate in November 2018, progressives feel.
Ginsburg, 85 was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) of four to be confirmed to the court (along with Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who are still serving). Following O'Connor's retirement, and until Sotomayor joined the court, Ginsburg was the only female justice on the Supreme Court. During that time, Ginsburg became more forceful with her dissents, which were noted by legal observers and in popular culture. She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the court. Ginsburg has authored notable majority opinions, including United States v. Virginia, Olmstead v. L.C., and Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.
Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother, one of her biggest sources of encouragement, died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. She then earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University, and was a wife and mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated tied for first in her class.
Following law school, Ginsburg turned to academia. She was a professor at Rutgers School of Law and Columbia Law School, teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field. Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of gender equality and women's rights, winning multiple victories arguing before the Supreme Court. She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsels in the 1970s. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court.
https://www.smobserved.com/story/2018/09/27/politics/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-will-retire-from-the-us-supreme-court-in-january-2019/3658.html