Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Cancer Surgery
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February 5th, 2009
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer at a New York City hospital on Thursday.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, went under the knife at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to remove the 1-centimeter tumor in the center of her pancreas discovered last month during a routine medical check-up at a Maryland hospital. Doctors said the cancer was at an early stage.
The justice, known for her liberal stance, will stay in the hospital for 10 days, the court said quoting her surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan, as saying.
It was the second cancer surgery for Ginsburg during her term that started in 1993. In 1999, an operation removed a colon cancer and radiation and chemotherapy followed.
About 38,000 Americans are diagnosed with the deadly pancreatic cancer each year with only 5 percent surviving for five years because the disease is often detected late and has already spread in the body.
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