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South Pole physician who treated her own breast cancer dies at 57

(Los Angeles Times) UPDATED 2009-06-25

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 winter. In October of that year--8 months after FitzGerald noticed the lump--the New York Air National Guard conducted a successful evacuation mission. Read full story >

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