Ruth Bader Ginsburg undergoes surgery to remove cancerous growths

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is recovering after undergoing surgery Friday to remove two cancerous growths from her lungs, the Supreme Court said.

Two nodules were found in Ginsburg's left lung during tests taken when she was hospitalized after a fall last month, and they were determined to be malignant, per CNN. She's now "resting comfortably" after the surgery at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and doctors say there's no evidence of remaining disease.

Ginsburg, who is 85 years old, has previously survived cancer twice: first colon cancer in 1999, and then pancreatic cancer in 2009. After fracturing three ribs in a fall last month, she returned to work within a week.

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