Sunday, October 19, 2008

Antarctica breast cancer survivor struck down again


October 17, 2008 - 5:16AM
SYDNEY - A doctor who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer while working on an isolated station in Antarctica is facing another fight, this time against a brain tumour.
Dr Jerri Nielsen, a US physician and mother-of-three, took up a medical position at a research facility in the South Pole 10 years ago....