Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for cancer this month

The Supreme Court announced Friday that Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg had undergone radiation therapy to treat a pancreatic tumor.

Ginsburg, 86, had three weeks of outpatient radiotherapy starting August 5 and ending this week, according to NPR.

"The tumor has been treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," according to a statement by the Supreme Court. "Judge Ginsburg will continue to undergo periodic blood tests and blood tests. No other treatment is needed at the moment. "

Ginsburg has been treated for cancer many times over the past 20 years, notes NPR. This summer marked his second round of treatment in less than a year. In December, she was operated on for lung cancer. The doctors said that the operation had been successful and that there was no evidence of cancer remaining at that time.

The health issues for justice, a liberal become a feminist icon in recent years thanks to her bitter dissensions and her work on women's rights, have led to questions about how long she would stay at home. sit. If she were to leave during President Trump's term, he would certainly appoint a Conservative judge, giving the Conservatives a 6-to-3 majority in the Supreme Court.

This could give right-wing judges enough leeway to reverse Roe v. Wade and accomplish a variety of other conservative priorities.

But speculations about Ginsburg's longevity at court have always come up against its legendary harshness.

"There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, which announced with immense joy that I would be dead in six months," Ginsburg told NPR before his last round of treatment. "This senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now dead himself and I am very alive."