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Cancer & body positivity

Below are the best resources we could find on Cancer and body positivity.

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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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Free the Nippleless! From Ourselves and the Shame of Living in a Society that Rarely Acknowledges Us

For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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The Skin You’re In: Coping with Body Changes After Cancer

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.

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