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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 5 2009, 1:13 PM ET Comment

The wires report that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is having surgery for pancreatic cancer; pancreatic growths are are almost always malignant, and pancreatic cancer has among the lowest survival rates of the many varieties of the disease. Surprisingly, the good news is that surgeons usually tend to operate on the pancreas when the cancer hasn't spread, so Ginsberg may well have a better than average prognosis.



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