“Well, I hope she does really well and our thoughts and prayers are with her,” Trump said. “It’s a very serious situation. I’m hoping she’s going be fine. She’s pulled through a lot. She’s strong. Very tough. But we wish her well, very well.”
During his presidency, Trump has already appointed two justices to the court — Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
“She has totally kept up by all accounts,” said Shaw. “It even sounds as though during the course of treatment she went to Broadway shows, she went shopping — at the moment it does not seem to be slowing her down at all.”
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits onstage as a speaker of the David Berg Distinguished Speakers Series held at the New York Academy of Medicine, Dec. 15, 2018, in New York.
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The new tumor on her pancreas was detected after a routine blood test in early July and a biopsy on July 31 confirmed it was malignant, the court said.
A three-week course of radiation treatment at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City ended Friday. “The tumor was treated definitively” and, according to the court spokesperson, “no further treatment is needed at this time.”
The treatment caused her to cancel her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the court said, but she had otherwise maintained “an active schedule.”
“Recovery from radiation therapy is usually much quicker than other therapies like surgery or chemotherapy,” said Paul. “Generally speaking, because it’s non-invasive, it’s a quicker return to daily life.”
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