Posted on 06/24/2009 6:00:37 PM PDT by LibWhacker
(CNN) -- Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, Dr. Jerri Nielsen died early Tuesday, her brother said. She was 57. Jerri Nielsen treated herself for breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999.
Jerri Nielsen treated herself for breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999.
Nielsen had been fighting the latest round of cancer for the past five years, brother Eric Cahill said. She died just before 4 a.m. in Massachusetts, surrounded by her family, he said.
"She would want to be remembered for the adventure and, you know, living every day, and not just the sickness," said sister-in-law Diana Cahill. "She was very much active and still even doing talks as late as March of this year. Then the last month or so, she was pretty sick."
Nielsen caught the nation's attention in 1999, when she found a lump in her breast as a 47-year-old physician stationed at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station.
After finding the lump in June, she diagnosed herself with breast cancer and began treating herself using chemotherapy agents that the U.S. Air Force parachuted to the station the next month.
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I remember this story, God bless and her family, may she rest in peace.
wow, her words her really moving, i like what she’s said and I know I’ll remember them for a long time to come.
BTW, way kewl screen name..
Brave woman, and so was the welder who helped her with the Chemo.
Nice that the USAF was able to risk the lives of the aircrew to take the supplies in, and later, fly in to pick her up for treatment.
Tough lady.
Also, brave aircrews......
RIP.
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