![]() ![]() Her ordeal attracted a great amount of attention from the media, and Nielsen later wrote an autobiographical book recounting her story. Her condition remained life-threatening, and the first plane to land at the station in the spring was sent several weeks earlier than planned, despite adverse weather conditions, to take her to the U.S. A military plane was later dispatched to the pole to airdrop equipment and medications. ![]() Nielsen teleconferenced with medical personnel in the United States and had to operate on herself in order to extract tissue samples for analysis. ![]() In 1998, during the southern winter, at a time when the station is physically cut off from the rest of the world, she developed breast cancer. Physician who self-administered a biopsy, and later chemotherapy, after discovering a breast tumour while in Antarctica until she could be evacuated ![]()
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