She quietly struggled with cancer and other health issues for the better part of her time on the bench
for “at least five more years.” Following more than two decades of struggling with cancer, the Supreme Court justice died in Sept. 2020 of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer.beloved husbandEveryone with cancer experiences the disease differently, and it’s hard to predict how someone will move on after a diagnosis, says Dr. David Ryan, chief of hematology and oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of“There’s always a before and after,” Ryan says.
“People who’ve had cancer are acutely aware that [life] could always be taken away from them,” he says. “You’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop in a way that people who haven’t had cancer can ignore.” “It gets harder for a second diagnosis or a third diagnosis, but you also have a calmness. They’ve been through it before, they know what dealing with the hospital is — all this stuff that makes you crazy the first time,” Ryan says. “I would never underestimate the human [ability] to be resilient.”
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