- February 5th, 2009, 5:55 pm
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cnn.com wrote:Justice Ginsburg has surgery for cancerClick Here for Full Story
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the Supreme Court, had surgery Thursday for early stage pancreatic cancer, the Supreme Court announced.
Ginsburg, 75, is at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the court said in a news release. It said she will likely remain there for seven to 10 days, according to her attending surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan.
"Justice Ginsburg had no symptoms prior to the incidental discovery of the lesion during a routine annual checkup in late January at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland," the court said.
A CAT scan "revealed a small tumor, approximately one centimeter across, in the center of the pancreas," it added.
- By Purple Haize