Long-Duration Flight Medical Planning: Medical Care on the Way to the Moon and Mars
Abstract In 1999, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, the sole physician at the South Pole Station felt a mass in her breast. She could not be evacuated because a plane had never landed at the South Pole in midwinter. So, using materials at hand, the team biopsied the mass, stained the cells, and...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195137255.003.0012 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52323146/isbn-9780195137255-book-part-12.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract In 1999, in the middle of the Antarctic winter, the sole physician at the South Pole Station felt a mass in her breast. She could not be evacuated because a plane had never landed at the South Pole in midwinter. So, using materials at hand, the team biopsied the mass, stained the cells, and transmitted pictures to specialists in the United States. The images showed breast cancer. Chemotherapeutic drugs and other supplies were airdropped to the station. When weather improved sufficiently to allow an evacuation, the doctor returned home to definitive medical care. Fortunately, the cancer had been controlled, and she made a full recovery. |
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