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Ice Bound(Reprint)
A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
by Dr Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2002 by Miramax
ISBN-13: 978-0-7868-8699-9, ISBN: 0-7868-8699-4
"Serving as doctor to the Americans "wintering over" at the South Pole in 1999, Jerri Nielsen made headlines when she discovered a lump in her breast that a self-administered biopsy revealed to be an aggressive, fast-growing cancer. No flights in or out of Antarctica are possible during the continent's long winter, and Nielsen's account of giving herself chemotherapy while she and her fellow "Polies" waited for the weather to break is ev ..."
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