Justice Ginsburg Urges Testing for Colon Cancer
From Times Wire Reports
Colon cancer survivor Ruth Bader Ginsburg made rare public remarks about her illness this week and urged all middle-age women to get tested for a disease often associated with men.
“If you are a woman at or near what the French call ‘a certain age,’ have a colonoscopy,” the 68-year-old U.S. Supreme Court justice said in an address to the Society for Women’s Health Research.
The Washington-based group asked Ginsburg to talk about her cancer, which was diagnosed in 1999. Treatment continued through June 2000.
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