Justice Ginsburg: ‘I am on my way to being very well’

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday gave an upbeat assessment of her health after undergoing cancer treatment earlier this month.

Asked by National Book Festival moderator and NPR reporter Nina Totenberg if she planned on staying on as a justice, Ginsburg said, “Well first this audience can see that I am alive,” before adding, “I am on my way to being very well,” to the audience’s cheers.

The 86-year-old justice completed radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer last week after undergoing a three-week treatment starting Aug. 5 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Totenberg followed up by asking why Ginsberg is not resting, to which the justice replied: “We have more than a month yet to go. I’ll be prepared when the time comes.”

“I love my job, it’s the best and the hardest job I’ve ever had and it’s what kept me going through four cancer bouts,” Ginsburg said. “Instead of concentrating on my aches and pains I just know I have to read this set of briefs, draft opinions.”

Nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, Ginsburg has survived multiple cancer diagnoses. She was first treated for colorectal cancer in 1999 followed by a further bout of pancreatic cancer in 2009.

The court announced she had successfully completed treatment on Aug. 23.

“The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” the court said in a statement.

Co-authors of Ginsburg’s latest book “My Own Words,” Wendy Williams and Mary Hartnett, were also on the Washington, D.C., books festival panel.

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