The four-time cancer survivor says she's 'encouraged' by the results of her chemotherapy treatment.
In May, the 87-year-old was treated for a benign gallbladder condition, but she didn’t let it get in the way of her work duties. Last summer, she battled pancreatic cancer, completing three weeks of radiation treatment.as long as I’m healthy and mentally agile
.” Ginsburg, who was appointed to the high court by then-President Bill Clinton in 1993, is a four-time cancer survivor, after all. “There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months,” Ginsburg said during an. “That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.”
Last summer, in an inspiring speech she gave at the University of Buffalo she revealed that her work in this world is not done. “It was exhilarating to help bring down the barriers that, in Justice Brennan’s words, put women less ‘on a pedestal,’ than ‘in a cage.’ So much has changed for the better since then. True, we have not reached Nirvana, but the progress I have seen in my lifetime makes me optimistic for the future,” she explained. “Our communities, nation, and world will be increasingly improved as women achieve their rightful place in all fields of human endeavor.
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