They should have cancer doctors on all the shows, but they are trying to soft pedal the Ginsburg news.
Very good point.
But the cover a narrative (Orange man bad), not news.
Great point. The supreme Court press release is difficult to find, and has some "interesting" verbiage:
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor. As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time.
Note the use of the word "definitively": "tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body." Have you ever seen that word in a medical statement before?
Note also that "there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body". That is also quite curious for any octanagerian.
They're clearly trying to give the impression that she's "cured", but that's obviously impossible to state, especially after a "three week treatment" that started August 5 (that would be August 26) isn't even over yet.