South Pole Doctor And Cancer Survivor Who Treated Herself 10 Years Ago Dies
 

A US doctor who diagnosed and treated herself for breast cancer while stationed in the South Pole during the winter of 1999, was then rescued and survived, has died. Dr Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, aged 57 and a native of Ohio, died at her home in Southwick, Massachusetts, on Tuesday her husband Thomas FitzGerald told the press. Nielsen's cancer came back in 2005, this time in her brain, said a CBS3 report.

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