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Body Image & cancer

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Running Wild: More than Scars

Running Wild: More than Scars uses the analogy of an endurance event to depict the full scope of a cancer journey. An endurance event has a training phase, race, and recovery phase. Facing a cancer diagnosis and moving through it follows the same pattern.

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When Cancer Changes Your Appearance

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.

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Breast Cancer and Body Image

Body image is a huge component of what we go through. For me, I just needed to be authentic to myself and true to what was going on with my body and accept those changes.

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Reclaim Your Strength and Hope: Exercises for Cancer Core Recovery

Emilee Garfield is a professional life coach, two time cancer survivor and has been a movement educator for 21 years, specializing in therapeutic Pilates and yoga.

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Rita Wilson on Life After Breast Cancer

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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New Procedure Battles Body Image after Breast Cancer Surgery

Each year, hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with breast cancer and need surgery, which create large scars leaving survivors to struggle with body image.

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How Does Breast Cancer Affect Your Body?

Most of the biggest effects to your body from breast cancer come from the treatment, not from the disease. Find out what to expect.

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Part 1 of 3: Body Image and Cancer Survivorship

Daniela Wittmann discusses how cancer treatment leaves lasting effects on a person's body. She offers strategies to help cancer survivors accept these changes without any loss of self-esteem.

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Changes to Your Appearance and Body Image

Cancer and treatments can cause changes to your body. These can affect how you think and feel about your body.

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Audre Lorde: A Black Lesbian Feminist Experience of Breast Cancer

First published over 40 years ago, Audre Lorde’s memoir about her breast cancer diagnosis and mastectomy remains one of the most powerful stories on body image, illness, and women’s pain.

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