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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This is very personal and pertinent. I am sitting in recovery as I write this. My wife’s pan tumor was removed yesterday.
The mortality rate is so crazy because you are nearly dead when the first symptoms show up. By the grace of God we caught ours in Stage 1 and the docs said we should be aggressive and pursue a cure. So we are being aggressive.
Pan Cancer lags way behind the other cancers in detection, treatment and survival. But the major cancer centers are sprinting to catch up.
I'm sunk....I'll never know if its just my usual back pain or a killer disease.
My cousin had kidney cancer 8 years ago..found it totally by accident..went in originally for an enlarged spleen so they ordered an ultra sound, than saw the tumor on his kidney, it was stage 1, removed the tumor and no other treatment necessary..he was very lucky
I am so sorry for your loss
Prayers up for you and your wife.
My ex-husband’s best friends wife died of pancreatic cancer in 1993. She went to the doctor when they noticed she was losing a lot of weight,
yet her stomach was getting bigger. She was only 38.. always slim and a non-smoker. It had spread to the liver. She fought a brave fight.
“I had an aortic dissection a few years ago, and when they scanned my abdomen they found a one-inch malignant tumor on my right kidney. I was able to get it removed before it had a chance to spread. The ironic thing is that if I hadn’t had the dissection (which is a pretty bad thing in and of itself) I’d never have known about the tumor until it was too late.”
LOL! Laughing with you, not at you, because of a very similar experience. I have Type II diabetes and get screening follow-us every three months. I had one of those in early 2015 and my doctor found a low hemoglobin level, an indicator of intestinal bleeding. Then I had a stool test for occult blood that turned out positive. Then a colonoscopy that revealed colon cancer. Two weeks later my ascending colon was removed along with a stage 2 colon cancer. Since then I’ve been free of it and had a completely clear colonoscopy at the end of March this year.
The LOL irony of this whole thing is having Type II diabetes probably saved my life from colon cancer.
Yep. The pain suffered from pancreatic cancer is horrific. One of the most painful of any disease.
I will raise a beer with Powers when Ruthie kicks the bucket.
Pancreatic cancer is bad. RGB’s recurrent pancreatic cancer is even worse. She’s also had prior colorectal and lung manifestations. At her age and with her history, 6 months survival would be generous.
I’m sure your wife is no such thing. Prayers for you both.
If there is awaiting list 86 year olds shouldn’t be on it.
Talk about euphemistic bu11sh!t! Definitive=conclusive, means “final solution or to end a situation”.
Are they saying that no further treatment for this will require being implemented.... EVER?
“I have Type II diabetes and get screening follow-ups every three months.”
Really? The VA doesn’t do that for me.
there should never be an 86 year old judge 70 is old enough.
A judge who says she will use international law to interpreter US constitutional cases or who unethically interjects herself into presidential politics should be impeached.
A judge who falls asleep on the bench should be impeached.
That’s the classic presentation for pancreatic cancer. I worked in diagnostic ultrasound since the 70’s. Every pt I ever saw (100s) that came for a liver ultrasound because they just turned yellow with no other symptoms had pancreatic ca. And the ones I could keep track of usually died within 6 weeks to 3 months.
If you could do that, Type I diabetics would be very happy.
Thanks Redwood71. This is a very informative post.
I suspected that the spread of cancer beyond the pancreas was a major reason why a transplant wouldn’t help the situation. Didn’t even consider that the anti-rejection treatments would make the cancer situation even worse.
Luciano Pavarotti too. He died with a year.
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