Posted on 08/23/2019 4:28:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated for pancreatic cancer in New York City, the Supreme Court announced Friday.
While the court said Ginsburg's tumor "was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," and no further treatment was needed, pancreatic cancer remains a serious diagnosis for the 86-year-old liberal icon.
Pancreatic cancer was the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States in 2018, after lung and colorectal cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute.
About 95% of people with pancreatic cancer die from it, experts say. It's so lethal because during the early stages, when the tumor would be most treatable, there are usually no symptoms. It tends to be discovered at advanced stages when abdominal pain or jaundice may result. Presently, there are no general screening tools.
There are two types of pancreatic cancer: exocrine tumors and endocrine tumors.
Exocrine tumors are the majority of pancreatic cancers, and the most common form is called adenocarcinoma, which begins in gland cells, usually in the ducts of the pancreas. These tumors tend to be more aggressive than neuroendocrine tumors, the kind that Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs had, but if caught early enough, they can be treated effectively with surgery.
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I'm not a doctor but I wouldn't recommend radiation and chemo past 80 unless they are very healthy, have a good immune system, a positive attitude and some excess weight. It's tough on 50 year olds. You lose weight. You can't keep food down (regardless of what they say about their expensive anti-nausea medicine). And it's very very hard mentally. I'm not 80 yet but I would forego the treatment after what I've seen from family members.
See post 10.
Had a scare with my pancreas several years ago but when my gall bladder was removed, the swelling went down. Buddy of mine is a GP and he said the last thing you want is anyone messing with your pancreas because it’s a sensitive organ.
See post 10.
I can't imagine this Ginsberg lady is long for this world. She has had cancer three or four times. And pancreatic cancer is not one of them that is very forgiving. Something like a 95% death rate if diagnosed with it. Especially at her advanced age.
She could be gone within months if not sooner.
And if you have nagging mid-back pain, get it checked out sooner rather than later. Have heard this occurring more than once.
I give her no more than 60 days!!!
Pancreas is the ONE organ that can not be operated on no such thing as a pancreas transplant!!! Steve Jobs would have certainly had one if at all possible!!!
They set me up with an appointment with an oncologist who happened to be the same doctor that Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) had. In the two weeks that I waited to see him I made the mistake of Googling pancreatic cancer. I was pretty sure I would be dead in less than a year.
I had robot assisted laparoscopic surgery and it saved my life. I almost died from the complications of the surgery. I got double pneumonia and went into respiratory arrest and it took a long time to recover but I did survive. They told me prior to the surgery that if it wasn’t successful I could expect to live seven years. Pretty much how long Steve Jobs lasted.
They never thought she’d lose.
Now they’re well and truly fncked.
And they’ll never allow Orange Man to replace Ridiculous Bs Ginsburg. Never.
What a time to be alive.
The pancreas is a very gel-like organ where cancer cells can easily pass through its ducts and tiny blood vessels to metastasis.
Not more than 2 hours ago we , were told that a strapping 50ish firefighter ,who has a boat on our dock, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He’s a really tough guy with 5 teenage sons and we’re all in shock.
There is more to that story. The forced landing was in Prescott Valley, Arizona. He was lucky to set it down on the relatively flat prairie there, as it is in a valley surrounded by mountain peaks extending some three thousand feet higher AGL.
A guy I know was one of the construction workers who witnessed the incident. Swayze was heavily intoxicated. At his request, the workers cleaned a couple of six-packs' worth of beer bottles out of the aircraft, and my friend took him home and let him sleep it off on his sofa before the crash investigation could be commenced.
Chronic pancreatitis due to alcoholism is likely to have been a bigger factor in the development of his pancreatic cancer than his smoking history. Sadly, he was a well known drunk.
blessings and luck on you
But she could die next week. Or next year. Pancreatic cancer is not forgiving. 95% mortality rate if you have it.
She would have to hang on for 15 more months to beat Trump from naming her successor if he should lose the 2020 election.
Of course, if he wins a second term in 15 months, she would have to defy all odds to live and work to the end of those 4 years.
So my odds say that Trump will be nominating her successor. Eventually.
I’m on Medicare.
it’s not clear that Bader actually has primary pancreatic carcinoma ... her tumor was described as “isolated” which means it hasn’t metastasized, and it was treated with focused “stereotactic ablative radiation”, not something normally used in advanced primary pancreatic carcinoma ... not clear if the tumor is a slow-growing metastases of her lung cancer, a recurrence of her pancreatic cancer from 10 years ago or is is a new cancer in someone predisposed to getting cancer ...
all is speculation right now ...
Yes, indeed! It's the "every-dark-cloud-has-a-silver-lining" thing, affirmed!
CT scans apparently can pick it up.
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