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Dr. Jerri Nielsen has passed away at the age of 57. Dr. Nielsen, an emergency room doctor from Ohio, was working at the South Pole's scientific station when she discovered a lump in her breast in 1999. Nielsen had no other medical professionals to rely on, but herself. She biopsied herself with the help of a welder and a mechanic, both of whom trained themselves using needles, potatoes, and thawed chicken. The tumor she found wound up being an aggressive form of breast cancer.1
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