Ginsburg says O’Connor once shared advice on working while getting cancer treatment

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor gave her advice on receiving cancer treatment while working.

Ginsburg told the crowd at an event for the Clinton Foundation in Little Rock, Ark., that O’Connor was a useful resource because of her experience with breast cancer while on the bench.

{mosads}“Ruth, you schedule your chemotherapy on Friday,” Ginsburg said O’Connor told her. “You have Saturday and Sunday to get over it.”

The Supreme Court announced in August that Ginsburg had undergone the three weeks of radiation treatment for a malignant tumor on her pancreas, saying she “tolerated treatment well.”

She made her first public appearance following the treatment last week.

At the event Tuesday she said she was feeling “very good.”

Ginsburg, 86, has faced bouts of cancer during her tenure, undergoing surgery in 1999 for colorectal cancer, a procedure for pancreatic cancer in 2009 and another operation to remove two malignant nodules in her lungs in December.