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Ginsburg says she no longer has cancer

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose health has become a preoccupation of the American public as the Supreme Court hews rightward under President Donald Trump, announced this week that she was cancer-free.

Ginsburg, 86, one of four liberal justices on the nine-member court, told CNN on Tuesday that treatment for a malignant tumor on her pancreas had been successful.

Her doctors discovered the tumor in July after a routine blood test, and a biopsy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City confirmed a localized malignant tumor.

“I’m cancer-free,” Ginsburg said in the interview, adding that she had resumed an active schedule.