Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized With Cancer

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/0...-hospitalized/

Very sad news about a brilliant lawyer and jurist who, from all accounts, is also an incredibly kind and generous person.

Oh, that makes me so sad, my thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. Pancreatic cancer scares me, talk about a silent killer.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

Oh, that makes me so sad, my thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. Pancreatic cancer scares me, talk about a silent killer.

There had been some rumors that she was having health problems, but she was still keeping up a busy schedule at the Court, and has remained very active during oral arguments.

Two of her former clerks were professors at my law school, and they both couldn't say enough nice things about her as a person. She'll be getting the best medical care possible; my thoughts and prayers are definitely with her, her family and friends.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

There had been some rumors that she was having health problems, but she was still keeping up a busy schedule at the Court, and has remained very active during oral arguments.

In the paper this AM, I read that she didn't miss a day on the bench when she was fighting colon cancer. That is amazing in and of itself.

Pancreatic cancer is a cruel, vicious disease. One of my good friends, her dad was diagnosed with it in May and was gone by Independence Day. I think people forget how brutal it is--we see Patrick Swayze and Steve Jobs deal with it fairly well, and they really are rare examples.

[AGDee]

Dr. Ron Davis, former president of the American Medical Association passed away from pancreatic cancer in late '08. He was a physician in the health system that I work for and headed numerous research studies geared toward cancer prevention and wellness programs.. the irony.

Survival rates for colon cancer, if detected early are quite high. If it's limited to the colon, they can simply remove the colon and do some chemo to make sure it hadn't yet metastasized. Pancreatic cancer is much tougher to beat.

[PeppyGPhiB]

But the reason why pancreatic cancer is so deadly statistically is because most cases are caught late-stage (read: end-stage). Only 1 in 10 cases is caught early, as Ginsburg's was. If caught early, prognosis can actually be good.

[SWTXBelle]

It was caught during a routine screen that she has every year because of the colon cancer. So, the colon cancer may indirectly be responsible for her catching the pancreatic cancer early.

[PeppyGPhiB]

This guy's a real peach...

Senator says Justice Ginsburg may die this year

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning said his support for conservative judges may come into play shortly because one of the Supreme Court's liberal members, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, could die in less than a year from pancreatic cancer.

Ginsburg has "bad cancer. The kind that you don't get better from," the two-term Kentucky Republican said during a 30-minute Lincoln Day dinner speech Saturday in Elizabethtown, according to the Courier-Journal of Louisville.

Doctors diagnosed the 75-year-old justice and removed a small tumor this month. They said the cancer was caught early, when it is most curable.

"Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live" with pancreatic cancer, Bunning said.

more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29350373/