I think RBG had colon cancer which is much more treatable than pancreatic cancer.
Guess who RBG and her husband frequently dined with?
Who do they frequently dine with? I've never seen them at Noodles & Company, Hard Times Cafe, or our local and most excellent Chinese eatery, but RBG looks like she's on the tofu and bean sprouts circuit, so I doubt I'd encounter her in any case.
She has had two types of cancer..one of them is usually a death sentence. The one that got Patrick Swayze.
[I think RBG had colon cancer which is much more treatable than pancreatic cancer.]
She also had Pancreatic cancer...
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/02/few_get_surgery_for_grim_pancr.html