Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of Canada Treated for New Pancreatic Cancer

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Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court has recently been treated for a "localized malignancy" on her pancreas, a spokeswoman for the court said Friday.

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"The tumor has been treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the spokesman said.

PHOTO: Associate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg at an official group photo before the Supreme Court on November 30, 2018 in Washington.Washington Post via Getty Images, FILE
Associate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg at an official photo of the group before the Supreme Court on November 30, 2018 in Washington.

Ginsburg, 86, was operated on for colon cancer in 1999 and diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2009.

PHOTO: Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court is photographed in the West Conference Room of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC on August 30, 2013.Nikki Kahn / The Washington Post / Getty Images, FILE
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Supreme Court justice, is photographed in the West Conference Room of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC on August 30, 2013.

Liberal justice, which has become an icon of pop culture dubbed "the notorious RBG" and a hero for young activists, dismissed concerns about his health during an interview with NPR in July, saying that she was "very alive".

"There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, which announced with great joy that I would be dead in six months," Ginsburg said. "This senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now dead himself and I am very alive."

The progressives were particularly concerned about the health of Ginsburg in recent years, fearing that if it could no longer serve or retire, it would give President Donald Trump the opportunity to appoint another Conservative judge.

During his presidency, Trump has already appointed two court judges, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

PHOTO: Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg attends the stage as a speaker in David Berg's Distinguished Speaker Series, to be held at the New York Medical Academy on December 15, 2018 in New York City .Rebecca Gibian / AP
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attends on stage as a speaker in David Berg's distinguished speaker series, which was held at the New York Medical Academy on December 15, 2018 At New York.

The new tumor on his pancreas was detected after a routine blood test in early July and a biopsy on July 31 confirmed that it was malignant. the court said.

A three-week radiation treatment at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York ended Friday. "The tumor has been treated definitively" and, according to the court spokesman, "no further treatment is needed at the moment".

The treatment led her to cancel her annual summer visit to Sante Fe, said the court, but she also maintained "an active schedule".

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