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Body Positivity & cancer

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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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Body Image after Breast Cancer Surgery

Body Image after Breast Cancer Surgery: Conversations on Survival A group of breast cancer survivors discuss accepting their body after breast cancer surgery.

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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.

Katherine Friese

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Learning to Accept (if Not Love) My Scar

The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.

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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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‘It Has Taught Me Life Is too Short to Be Negative About My Body’: This Is How Cancer Really Affects Your Body Image

I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!

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Body Image

Even if you don’t experience any physical changes from cancer, you might still feel like others see you differently.

Livestrong Staff

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Readers Write/Vanity

I live in a culture that’s only too eager to court my vanity.

Readers of The Sun Magazine

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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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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.

Macmillan Editorial Staff

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