Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with any advertisers on this site. My sister is undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. In the past three months, she has become infertile, gone ...

Chemotherapy sucks. Yes, it’s a lifesaving procedure, but it sucks nonetheless. As the drugs kill cancer cells, they also kill and damage other cells in your body. Chemo can suck your lifeforce, it ...

“Well it’s beginning…looks like in the next few days I’ll be getting my head buzzed.” Lynnette Gilliland knew this would happen, but she hadn’t realized how quickly her hair would start falling out.

While there is nothing wrong with being bald, a lot of breast cancer patients do opt for wigs. To help with the process, we had Hairstylist of the Year and owner of Bang! Salon Chicago, Eli Mancha, in ...

Safran is the Executive Director of The Identity Shift Project, which aims to bring new perspectives to healing through collaborative art making. Jessica Safran, a survivor of ovarian cancer and the ...

"I'm excited. I feel like I want to feel like myself," shared the 'Today' correspondent Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

For many women, their hair is an expression of who they are as much as their decisions of what to wear. So facing hair loss, because of cancer treatment, alopecia, genetics or any other reason, can be ...

In 2023, I was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer. I tried cold capping to avoid losing my hair but was told to prepare to lose it all anyway. My kids encouraged me not to wear a wig ...

Dear Heloise: Here's a suggestion to readers facing chemotherapy and possible hair loss: The American Cancer Society maintains wig rooms in most areas of the country where people can go to borrow a ...

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Dana McSwain is battling breast cancer that has spread to her lymph nodes. In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, as she was working full-time and taking care of her two young daughters, Dana ...