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Statement from NSF Director Arden Bement. I’ve come to accept it as being part of life, and I think I’ve come to accept it earlier than my years because of what’s happened to me,” Nielsen told Psychology Today magazine in 2006 after her cancer had returned. The book gives you many interesting facts about the climate and how it can affect your life. Jerri Nielsen talks about all of her adventures, good times, and close calls that she has had while living on the ice. Nielsen's cancer went into remission until 2005, when it first attacked her liver and bones, and later her brain. The famous Jerri Nielsen gives her life story in the book. She later wrote a book about her experience, Ice Bound, which was eventually made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon. 16, several weeks earlier than normal, to evacuate her. With the help of her fellow winter-over Polies, Nielsen received treatment until the New York Air National Guard landed at South Pole on Oct.

The weather conditions too cold for a rescue, the National Science Foundation (NSF) organized an airdrop in July 1999 to deliver medical supplies. Nielsen made headlines around the world 10 years ago when she discovered a lump in her breast during the dead of the polar winter. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the United States, she was forced to perform a biopsy and treat herself with chemotherapy in order to ensure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue. 'Ice Bound: A DoctorS Incredible Battle For Survival At The South Pole') Shannon Oconnor Network Executive (Cbs) Dino Pigat Sound Re-Recording Mixer. Jerri Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, the former South Pole Station physician who was diagnosed with breast cancer during the middle of the Antarctic winter, succumbed to the disease on June 23, 2009. Based on the true story of Jerri Nielsen, the doctor whose dramatic story of breast cancer, self-treatment and survival in the South Pole made headlines worldwide.

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