Below are the best articles we could find on Body Image and cancer.
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I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.
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The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.
Knowing that all people who undergo treatment for cancer will face some sort of changes to their bodies and self-perception is both normalizing and challenging.
Paige More gets real about what it was like to be a body positivity advocate who didn’t love her own body, and how she’s repairing her relationship with it now.
For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.
Despite their many visible differences, they’re bound together by more than breast cancer: They are linked through an ambitious portrait series meant to explore body image, illness and self-esteem called The Grace Project.
I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
Even if you don’t experience any physical changes from cancer, you might still feel like others see you differently.
Cancer and cancer treatment can cause physical changes to the way cancer patients look and, as a result, feel about their bodies. Here are ways to cope with those changes and any body image problems that might result.
Feeling feminine and sexy isn’t about a bra or a cup size or whether you have breast tissue or breast implants. It’s more internal.
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