The liberals are digging up dirt on Kavanaugh not only to try and remove him or influence his opinions, but also to make it as difficult as possible for Trump to nominate someone before the Presidential election next year. The reason why they are doing that is because the odds of RBG making it to Jan 2021 are not good and here is why.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.

The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis, began Aug. 5, shortly after a localized cancerous tumor was discovered on Ginsburg's pancreas. The treatment included the insertion of a stent in Ginsburg's bile duct, according to a statement issued by the court.

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"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City," a statement from the Supreme Court read. "The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor.

"As part of her treatment, a bile duct stent was placed. The Justice tolerated treatment well. She cancelled her annual summer visit to Santa Fe, but has otherwise maintained an active schedule. The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans. No further treatment is needed at this time." Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Love And Other Things LAW Ruth Bader Ginsburg On Love And Other Things

The Supreme Court's statement refers to a "stereotactic ablative radiation." Dr. Timothy Cannon, a gastrointestinal oncology specialist at Inova Schar Cancer Institute in Virginia who was not involved in Ginsburg's treatment, said, "That is the cutting-edge new cancer treatment, but it is not a cure for a pancreatic mass."

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RBG has non-resectable pancreatic cancer and she was not receiving treatment to "cure" it. She received a gallbladder stent which only stays open for 4-9 months and is a palliative measure and the median survival time for patients requiring a gallbladder stent was 12.9 months. (but the average age at diagnosis of those patients was 62 years old not 80+ years old).

She also had stereotactic ablative radiation and her tumor was treated definitively. That sounds great and reassuring, however that does not mean that she is cured. It just means that the tumor is no longer actively growing and is shrinking.

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The use of low-dose stereotactic body radiation (SBRT) in 3- to 5-fractionshas thus far produced a modest improvement in median survival with minimal toxicity and shorter duration of treatment, but failed to produce a meaningful difference at 2 years and beyond.

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She did not receive chemotherapy (or at least the statement did not tell us that she received chemotherapy) with her radiation. Even with the advances in radiation therapy the patients with nonresectable pancreatic cancer still received chemotherapy with the radiation. It is very possible that the statement did not mention chemotherapy because RBG does not want cameras and media members etc following her to her chemotherapy appointments and stuff like that, but if she was treated radiation therapy without chemotherapy then that is a sign that they are just doing palliative measures and is not expecting to make it to Jan 2021. I also believe that she has told democrats that in private, and that is why liberals appear to be gearing up to stop a Trump nominee supports that.

Side note: I tried to tell yall weeks ago that RBG is in trouble and I tried to explain it, but YOU PEOPLE thought that I was dancing on her grave or spiking the football, etc, but I was not doing that then and I am not doing that now. I am just presenting facts, but I do wish her well and I hope that she has as good of quality of life as possible.