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Ginsburg On Cancer Treatment: ‘I’m On My Way To Being Very Well’
2019-09-02
[DAILYCALLER] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said her health is improving after a fourth bout with cancer Saturday, telling a friendly audience in Washington, D.C., that her work sustains her during difficult periods.

The Supreme Court announced Aug. 23 that the 86-year-old progressive icon was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

"This audience can see that I am alive," Ginsburg said during a Saturday appearance at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. "And I’m on my way to being very well."

The justice was present to discuss a volume of her writings published in 2016 called "My Own Words." Mary Hartnett and Wendy Williams, the justice’s biographers, also joined Ginsburg on stage.

Ginsburg completed a three-week course of outpatient radiation therapy Aug. 23 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, after doctors identified a malignant tumor on her pancreas. The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office said the justice "tolerated treatment well" and shows no evidence of remaining disease. The high court’s senior liberal also had pancreatic cancer in 2009.

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Posted by:Fred

#20  if she believed what she just said she would probably not say it for fear that saying so would jinx her chances of recovery.
I am afraid that she is on her way to the sure cure for all diseases.
Posted by: Daniel   2019-09-02 20:55  

#19  ^ I have always loved that line from Night Court.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2019-09-02 18:32  

#18  But I'm feeling much better now... -- Gomez Addams
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-09-02 18:06  

#17  "You don't look like a newt now."
"I got better..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-09-02 14:26  

#16  I hope Trump started vetting successors for her. More than vetting, they need to be the type only he has leverage over. That is is the problem. We want people who can't be compromised, but also will bend to our will. People like Ginsburg can't be found from the current crop I think.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-02 13:39  

#15  I admire her and agree with you, Dron.

But no one is immortal. Everyone needs to respect time and fate.

She needs to step down, for the good of the country and the health of our institutions.
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-02 13:30  

#14  But there should be a term limit/retirement age. Just saying.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-02 13:27  

#13  Good for her. A strong woman, in a sea of ditzes really. If her work is that important to her, I'm sure she carries a cross of her own. And you need power from on high to cheat death for so long, so she may be an idealist God favors.

'How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?' - Book of Numbers, Bible
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-02 13:26  

#12  She really ought to step down.

We should not have people in any profession - legal, medical, academic, whatever - clinging to their posts when they are obviously at the end of their lives.
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-02 13:24  

#11  Res Ipsa Locutur...
Her very actions imply two things: (1) She has become a Partisan Actor and should recuse herself; and (2) If Partisanship in the US Supreme Court is the "New Normal" then we should rethink what place it has in the government.
Posted by: magpie   2019-09-02 12:54  

#10  I'm sure she'll feel quite well as long as she can get enough oxycodone.

I'm all in favor of anybody fighting cancer and that includes Ginsburg. I think it's great any time doctors can find new and effective treatments for this dreaded disease.

But she really should retire.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-09-02 12:37  

#9  She is used to deeming things to be the way she feels. Nature may have something to say about this, however.
Posted by: gorb   2019-09-02 11:09  

#8  I’m on my way to being very well

Death heals all wounds.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-09-02 10:02  

#7  So what the article is saying is she is "stable".
Posted by: Bugs Prince of the Danes7415   2019-09-02 09:22  

#6  Here's the actual medical quote:
"The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the statement said. "Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."

Treated definitively means that they executed their planned treatment.
No evidence of disease elsewhere means other than the tumor.

Nuance on the reporting leads one to believe that she is cancer free which she may not be.
There is also the issue of the stent...usually done as part of pallative care.
Posted by: Warthog   2019-09-02 08:11  

#5  She'll still be drawing full pay, allowances, reviewing briefs, and nodding semi-coherently while in hospice.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-09-02 08:03  

#4  #3 Perfect."And I’m on my way to being very well." Till tomorrow.
Posted by: Dale   2019-09-02 07:59  

#3  "To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee." - Herman Melville

Epitaph for her tombstone
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-09-02 07:36  

#2  Ginsburg decoded: " I see it as my totally impartial, totally nonpartisan sworn duty to hang onto my position as long as any Republican Fascist [*Gasp* Wheeze! Drool]... *ahem* ... until after the 2020 Elections."
Posted by: magpie   2019-09-02 02:05  

#1  All the more reason to retire and go fishing.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-09-02 01:09  

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