CANCER SERVICE
Look Good...Feel Better
A Program for Women
Going Through Cancer Treatment
Programs are held at Addison
Gilbert and Beverly hospitals
Please call 978.236.1650
for next scheduled dates, to register or for more
information.
The American Cancer Society offers Look Good - Feel Better
program to local residents. Guided by volunteer cosmetolgists,
female cancer patients who participate in this class will learn how
to use make-up and skin care techniques to overcome the
appearance-related effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
Women learn ways to disguise hair loss with wigs, scarves and other
accessories. First-time participants are given a free make-up
kit.
Look Good - Feel Better is a free, non-medical, product-neutral
program offered in partnership with the American
Cancer Society; the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association
Foundation (a charitable organization supported by the cosmetic
industry); and the National Cosmetology Association. Classes and
materials are provided free of charge to women in active cancer
treatment.
Beside the very real physical and emotional concerns of the
disease, the side effects of cancer treatment can be devastating to
a woman's self-esteem. Women who have participated in the Look Good
- Feel Better program, call the program an emotional lifesaver,
because it returned them to a sense of normalcy and allowed them to
smile again.
