NEW YORK _ Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg completed three weeks of treatment for pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital on Friday, her spokeswoman said.
The 86-year-old justice, who had cancerous growths removed from her left lung last year, has spent the better of August undergoing radiation therapy at Sloan Kettering Hospital on the Upper East Side after doctors detected a "malignant tumor" in her pancreas on July 31, according to the spokeswoman.
"The tumor was treated definitely and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," the rep said in a statement. "Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time."
Ginsburg had to scrap her annual summer trip to Santa Fe, N.M., "but has otherwise maintained an active schedule," according to the statement.
"The Justice tolerated treatment well," the spokeswoman said.
Ginsburg, who was nominated to the bench by President Bill Clinton in 1993, has emerged as a judicial hero to Democrats and progressives in the Trump era, consistently voting to reject some of the president's most controversial policies.
While undergoing treatment for the growths in her lung in December, Ginsburg reportedly cast a vote from her hospital bed to strike down Trump's asylum ban.
Since taking office, Trump has successfully appointed two conservative-leaning justices to the high court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
The court is currently made up of five Republican-appointed justices and four Democratic-appointed justices.
