Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suffered a recurrence of cancer earlier this year and began chemotherapy in May, she said in a statement Friday.
Ginsburg, 87, said the chemotherapy is “yielding positive results” and shrank lesions that were found on her liver in February.
Ginsburg, who is the court’s oldest member and its longest-serving Democratic appointee, has suffered several bouts of cancer in recent years and acknowledged last year that she was receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer. As recently as January, however, she said publicly that doctors believed she was cancer free.