Uh oh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/scotus_ginsburg

Ginsburg is hospitalized with pancreatic cancer

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the court said.

Ginsburg, 75, had the surgery at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She will remain in the hospital for seven to 10 days, said her surgeon, Dr. Murray Brennan, according to a release issued by the court.

The court announcement said the cancer is apparently in the early stages.

In 1999, Ginsburg, had surgery for colon cancer and had chemotherapy and radiation treatment. She has been a justice since 1993.

The pancreatic cancer was discovered during a routine, annual exam late last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

A CAT scan revealed a tumor measuring about 1 centimeter across the center of the pancreas, the court said.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly cancers: Nearly 38,000 cases a year are diagnosed and overall, fewer than 5 percent survive five years.

The reason: Fewer than one in 10 cases are diagnosed at an early stage — like Ginsburg's appears to be — before the cancer has begun spreading through the abdomen and beyond. That's because early pancreatic cancer produces few symptoms other than vague indigestion.

Even when caught early, surgery for pancreatic cancer is arduous. Doctors typically remove parts of the pancreas, stomach and intestines. Radiation and chemotherapy are common after surgery.

Ginsburg has recently told her former law clerks and others that she had no plans to retire any time soon, although those comments were made before the latest diagnosis.

eek. not good.

Is he one of the liberals?

Ruth? Yes, she is.

You, sir are a sexist pig.

I would have been worried if this had happened two years ago. Today? I don't really care.

Hopefully Obama replaces her with someone in their 30s.

Yes, well ... it is still sad for her family and stuff.

So, you would not care if she were a conservative? How very compassionate and European of you.

She cares about the Palestinians, though.

Well, that certainly shines a bright and cheerful ray of heavenly sunlight on a squashed pile of day old manure.

Ruth always sounds like a guy name to my French ears

it's the supreme court having a potential liberal vacancy I was regretting.
It's a bad health situation to be in whatever the political orientation (my mum spent most of last year in hospital for pancreatitis, so I know!).

And yet, you were still quite callous.

How sad.

I'm not rising to it

she was hardly being callous; maybe poorly chosen words/frowny face placement for the intention of the post, but nothing callous.

I disagree.

Pegasus wasn't being callous. She asked a question. The rest of this thread is about whatever meaning you've attached to a simple question.

I disagree.