Help on the Way for Stranded Doctor
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The long polar winter may be nearing an end for Jerrie Nielsen, an ailing U.S. physician stranded at an Antarctic research station. Nielsen, 47, who has a lump in her breast, reportedly has been treating herself with chemotherapy since an airdrop of medical supplies in July. The crews of two Air National Guard Hercules LC-130 cargo planes reached McMurdo base on Antarctica’s coast to wait for temperatures to rise above minus 58 degrees at the National Science Foundation’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station so that they may safely make the trip.
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