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In what I am choosing to see as a sign of good things to come, Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced yesterday she is cancer free. Thank goodness.
In an interview with CNN published Wednesday, the Notorious one said, “I’m cancer free. That’s good.” Over the summer, the justice shared her worrying diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, which required a three-week course of radiation therapy. In a statement following the treatment , the Supreme Court said the “tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body.” But it’s really nice to hear RBG confirm the positive news all these months later.
This most recent bout of cancer was Justice Ginsburg’s fourth. In 1999 she was treated for colorectal cancer, she had an earlier diagnosis pancreatic cancer in 2009, and she was treated for malignant nodules in her lungs in 2019. Let’s hope, that like a cat, she has a few more lives left.
2020 is already off to a great start.