Jerri Nielsen
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Jerri Nielsen (born 1952) is an American medical doctor and author of the nonfiction autobiographical book Ice Bound, which relates the story of her contracting breast cancer while serving at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station during the winter of 1999. She had to rely on self-administered chemotherapy using supplies from a daring July cargo drop, then was picked up in an equally dangerous mid-October landing.