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The Unique Body Image Challenges Related to Disability

By Charlotte Gerber — 2020

In many cultures, people with disabilities are often thought of as being sickly, feeble, and fragile. With those generally inaccurate perceptions of disability also come more harmful notions. These unique and almost invisible social challenges that people with disabilities face have a profoundly negative impact on self-worth, self-esteem, and body image.

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How Does Cancer and Cancer Treatment Affect Body Image and Confidence?

Cancer, and cancer treatment, can change your body, what it looks like and your body confidence. Young people and teenagers share how cancer changed their body but how they still feel still like themselves.

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Body Image after Breast Cancer Treatment: A Resource for Patients

The term “body image” refers to our thoughts, feelings and overall attitude around how we look, how we feel and the way our body works. Breast cancer and its treatment can have a negative impact on your body image.

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Body Image and Cancer—Macmillan Cancer Support

Treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormonal therapy can change the way your body looks, works or feels. In this video, Richard, Peter, Heather and Stacey talk about the physical effects of cancer and its treatment.

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Cancer and Your Body Image

Michelle Cororve Fingeret, PhD, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas discusses body change and body image, a common concern in cancer patients, how this impacts their lives, and empowering patients to move ahead, with Ken Miller, MD, a medical oncologist and...

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Young Adults, Cancer, and Body Image | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Kelly McCue, a young adult with leukemia, discusses body image challenges she's experienced since her diagnosis.

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Issues with How You Look, Body Image, and Breast Cancer by Julie Charlish

Julie Charlish talks about body image issues and breast cancer from her own experience.

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Body Image after Breast Cancer

Video done to support and raise awareness of body image and breast cancer survivors.

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Looking Within: Understanding Ourselves through Human Imaging

Where does body image come from? Can we perceive ourselves differently with a broader set of tools? What would it really be like to have x-ray vision? Beyond diagnosing illness or injury, can images of ourselves tell us more about life and ourselves? What if you could see that an accident victim...

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Flat: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer

A feminist breast cancer memoir of medical trauma, love, and how she found the strength to listen to her body. As a young, queer woman, Catherine Guthrie had worked hard to feel at home in her body.

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Cancer and Finances—Linda’s Story

Financial hardship often accompanies a cancer diagnosis. Linda shares her experiences and insights about managing questions with employment and finances that often accompany a cancer diagnosis.

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