WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation therapy at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the US Supreme Court said on Friday.
Radiotherapy, performed on an outpatient basis, began on 5 August, shortly after the discovery of a localized cancerous tumor in the pancreas in Ginsburg. The treatment included the insertion of the stent into the bile duct in Ginsburg, according to a court statement.
Doctors at Sloan-Kettering said the additional tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. The treatment comes a few months after Ginsburg underwent surgery to treat lung cancer last December. The 86-year-old judge has been treated for cancer in various forms over the past 20 years.

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"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic radiotherapy at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City," a Supreme Court statement said. “Intensive radiotherapy began on 5 August and was administered outpatient to treat a pancreatic tumor. This abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy on 31 July in Sloan-Kettering confirmed Translated malignant tumor.
'As part of her treatment, the stent placed the bile duct. Justice tolerated the treatment well. She canceled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but maintained an active schedule. Tumor treatment was definitively cured and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body, will continue. Judge Ginsburg is conducting bloody examinations and periodic surveys, and no further treatment is needed at this time. "
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