EXCLUSIVE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 86, leans on U.S. Marshal after leaving Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in NYC as it's revealed she completed three weeks of radiation treatment for cancerous tumor found on her pancreas
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 86, was seen leaving the Howard Laboratory at the Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in NYC on Thursday. On Friday, it was announced she had three weeks of radiation treatment after a routine blood test led to the discovery of a tumor on her pancreas last month. The tumor was 'treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere' and no further treatment is needed at this time. On Thursday, she was seen being helped up the steps into a private residence by a U.S. Marshal after her appointment while another carried her backpack. Ginsburg has been diagnosed with cancer three times already, colon cancer in 1999, pancreatic cancer in 2009 and lung cancer in 2018. Last November, she sustained three cracked ribs after she had a fall in her court office but within days she was up and working from her hospital room. Ginsburg is the oldest sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice and said it is her 'dream' to be on the Supreme Court for as long as former Justice John Paul Stevens, who served for 35 years. Ginsburg has served for 26 years so far.