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Look Good Feel Better Week
Featuring real program participants telling the story of what it means to undergo cancer treatment and how look good feel better changed their outlook and impacted their confidence.
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Jennifer’s Story
Jennifer was diagnosed at 39 with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. Jennifer is a wife to Chris and a mommy to 2 beautiful daughters, Grace and Phoebe, ages 10 and 4. She underwent 4 months of chemotherapy, a double mastectomy, radiation, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and will have adjunctive therapy for the next 5 years.
“I was diagnosed on November [...]
Ovarian Cancer Awareness
Hello Everyone,
Please read this and pass it along to as many people as you can.
You may just save a life.
My name is Joan Mantone. I am 49 and the mother of twin, ten year old girls. It has been one year since my surgery and diagnosis of ovarian cancer. I have been through chemotherapy, tests, [...]
BP4CG & The Beauty Foundation
When Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls was a book-in-the-making, Debbie and I met a group of ladies dedicated to easing the burdens facing chemotherapy patients. Their not- for-profit organization, The Beauty Foundation, focused as we did on providing hands-on help for women with cancer, aiming to make the long days of treatment a little easier [...]
Amy Gibson of “Created Hair”
I was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and am going through chemotherapy. One big issue for me was losing my hair. This has been a difficult journey. The loss of my hair felt like a loss of identity. As I searched for answers I found the terrific resource, Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls, [...]
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
We are celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness this month and would like to offer a free download of Chapter 6 – “A Girl Thing”
Visit the our homepage and click the link in the header to download your copy.
Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls on TV!
Our Television show will air for two weeks beginning October 3rd at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on:
LBCTV, a Government public access channel operated for the City of Long Branch, N.J. Cable TV Commission on Comcast TV channel 20.
It can also be viewed at http://LBCTV20.angelfire.com/ during airing dates and times.
Behind the Shadows : “Chemo Girls – Who is That Stranger in the Mirror?”
Hi everyone! Be sure to tune in to view Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls television show. Marybeth and Debbie were recently featured on the television program Behind the Shadows with Susan Finelli.
Here are the air dates & times:
Mon. July 25th at 8 p.m.
Sun. July 31st at 4 p.m.
TimeWarner Channel 34
RCN Channel 82
Verizon Channel 33
For [...]
Top five things…
Top five things a chemo girl can do when first diagnosed:
Understand your diagnosis
Locate a navigator
Coordinate with a surgeon
Coordinate with an oncologist
Review and understand your treatment plan
We spoke with Patient Navigator Nurse Betty this past Sunday on the Beauty Pearls For Chemo Girls Radio show! Tune in to the podcast here!
Pear Mousse recipe from Ruth Fehr
To listen to our Radio Show from 2/13 click here!
To learn more about Ruth Fehr, visit http://www.thepalettefund.org/
Pear Mousse
Serves 4
2 cups unfiltered apple juice or pear juice
2 teaspoons agar agar
2 ripe pears
1 cinnamon stick
3 tablespoons roasted almond butter
1. Place the apple juice in a pot. Add the agar agar. Set it sit for about 15 minutes to [...]
