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Can You Die Of Breast Cancer?
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, the physician who treated her own breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 has died at age 57. FitzGerald had been in breast cancer remission, but her cancer returned in 2005. Ten years ago, at the age of 47, FitzGerald became famous for treating her own cancer--including doing her own biopsy with only a local anesthetic and ice, as well as administering her own chemotherapy--after she noticed a lump just weeks after the last flight out for the...
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