Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has had two other bouts with cancer — colorectal in 1999 and pancreatic in 2009. But she has managed to maintain full participation on the bench through her health challenges . | Brendan SmialowskiI/AFP/Getty Images legal Ginsburg back working after cancer surgery

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to working after undergoing surgery to remove two malignant growths from her left lung last week, The Associated Press reported.

The 85-year-old lion of the judicial left, which closely tracks her every health update, had two nodules in her left lung, which doctors discovered last month when she was hospitalized for a fall that resulted in three fractured ribs.


There was no indication that the cancer had spread to other parts of her body, though few details were released.

The Associated Press reported that Ginsburg was still at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York as of Sunday. The Supreme Court reconvenes on Jan. 7.

On Friday, she was one of five justices who narrowly upheld a lower court order blocking a Trump administration policy to restrict asylum.

Ginsburg has had two other bouts with cancer — colorectal in 1999 and pancreatic in 2009. But she has managed to maintain full participation on the bench through her health challenges.