Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the nation's highest court, had surgery today to remove a cancerous tumor from her pancreas.

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It is a rare type of cancer called pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor that afflicts the hormone producing islet cells in the pancreas.

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Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.

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Her kidney tumor, diagnosed in 1997, had spread to her abdomen, pancreas and both lungs.

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To cure difficult cancers of the colon, pancreas and lung may require "cocktails" of new drugs, each attacking the tumor in a different way.

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