FightCancerwithBeauty Blog: Cancer Patient Skin Care

Beauty may be only skin deep, but for people battling cancer, applying cosmetics on the outside can help them feel better on the inside. So says Tim Quinn, a stockbroker turned internationally renowned makeup artist who spent Saturday, the first day of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, behind the Giorgio Armani Beauty counter at Saks Fifth Avenue on Union Square, giving makeovers and providing beauty tips for people with cancer. Quinn, who beat testicular cancer in 2007 and is a cancer research advocate for several groups, also shared how something as superficial as bronzer gave his psyche — and his mood — a boost while undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. “It doesn’t hurt to help them look their best,” said Quinn, who has worked backstage at fashion weeks in New York, Paris and Milan, at the Academy Awards and on luminaries from Jill Biden to January Jones. “When people are fighting for their lives, it can help to take them to a light-hearted pl...

According to Courant, October 2016 Cut Out Cancer, a West Hartford-based nonprofit, is hosting its first beauty and wellness fair for people on their cancer journey on Oct. 16 in Simsbury. The nonprofit was started in 2013 by a group of friends after Rachel Marcus, of Avon, had completed chemotherapy and was cancer free. Watching her fight the disease as a group of friends encouraged them to start an organization to help others doing the same. "Rachel fought  breast cancer  with incredible courage," said the nonprofit's president, Ronit Shoham. "We all took turns taking her to chemotherapy. It was about camaraderie." The majority of their work in the last three years has been a program that offers free salon services - everything from hair, nail, and massages - to men and women who are undergoing treatment for cancer. They partnered with brothers Sergio and Valerio Gurciullo, owners of Milano's Salon and Day Spa in Bloomfi...

According to Yahoo Beauty, November 23, 2016 Apps can do a lot of things: figure out how many miles you just ran, tell you what song is playing, and now, apparently, diagnose skin cancer. That’s what a New Zealand woman discovered after her app told her a skin discoloration on her leg was melanoma. Marie Stantiall used the SkinVision app, which analyzes pictures of the spots on a person’s skin within 20 seconds and determines whether the person is at a low, medium, or high risk of skin cancer. According to SkinVision.com, the app uses a dermatologist-tested algorithm that checks a person’s skin for irregularities in color, texture, and shape. (The app is currently not available in the U.S. but will be coming soon.) Stantiall tells the  New Zealand Herald  that she initially put her phone down when the red “high risk” alert first appeared. “I had that instant reaction of denial, but I kept going back to look at it until I knew I couldn’t ignore it,” she ...

According to yahoo.com, November 16, 2016 Grieving Husband Launches Foundation to Fight Pancreatic Cancer in Honor of His Late Wife More Bob Wright is a man on a mission. On July 29 his wife of 49 years, Suzanne, died of pancreatic cancer. What they learned about the lack of resources being devoted to the disease during the nine months she valiantly fought for her life was so shocking he knew he had to do something about it. “It’s a horrible situation,” says Wright, 73, who co-founded Autism Speaks with Suzanne in February 2005 after their grandson was diagnosed with autism. “There’s a lack of energy. No prioritization. No sense of urgency. The one fact that just knocks you right out is..the mortality rate for pancreatic cancer is 93 percent. It hasn’t changed much in 40 years. There’s no cancer that has that situation. “It’s the third leading cause of cancer deaths,” he says. “It just surpassed breast cancer.” On Wednesday, ...

According to Msbusiness, October 21, 2016 By LISA MONTI Gina Carter-Simmers will tell you the exact moment she received her breast cancer diagnosis. It was Aug. 10, 2016. And also the date — Aug. 4 — when she got the call from her doctor with the preliminary results. And the day she started chemo — Aug. 26. Carter-Simmers can recount such details about her ongoing fight with the disease but she’d rather talk about the Beauty of Cancer photo exhibit she’s working on that will open Feb. 16 at the Mississippi Museum of Art. It will feature photos of 28 women who are going through their own cancer battle. “We chose February for the display because it’s National Cancer Prevention Month. It’s my hope the exhibit will scare women into having yearly mammograms at the appropriate age and perform monthly self examinations,” she said. She said African-American women have the highest breast cancer mortality rate of any other ethnicity because they are getting diagnosed at lat...

According to Koreaherald, 18 Oct,2016: Korea’s cosmetics giant AmorePacific is hosting a campaign to share skincare, makeup and hairstyling know-how with some 590 female cancer survivors and patients who are struggling to cope with their physical changes, the firm said Tuesday. The AmorePacific Makeup Your Life campaign that began on Oct. 5 will continue until Nov. 23 at 16 hospitals in Seoul and other major cities. “AmorePacific has been working to make the world more beautiful and healthy for the past 71 years, because we believe in the power of ‘beauty,’” said Yoo Jae-cheon, executive vice president of AmorePacific’s Luxury BU. “We hope the campaign can help participants get and feel better,” he added. Throughout the event, beauty experts at AmorePacific offer makeup and skincare tips appropriate for cancer patients. As part of the program, patients are also offered an opportunity to heal their minds by writing letters of gratitude, making their own pot with empty c...

According to Homecaremag, Oct,2016: Why choosing hospital-based products is an absolute must by  Dr. Elizabeth McCord, Kyle D. Hilsabeck, PharmD, and Nancy B. Ray, Ph.D. It is no surprise that the incidence of many chronic diseases continues to steadily rise. After all, the average lifespan is increasing, and an estimated 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every day. Paired with skyrocketing rates of obesity, chronic diseases—such as cancer, venous disease and diabetes—account for approximately 75 percent of annual health care costs in the United States. With the rise of chronic diseases also comes largely unavoidable chronic conditions and complications of the skin. Though these conditions and complications are often adequately addressed in hospital settings, treatment hasn’t quite translated into homecare settings. At least 1 million seniors over the age of 65 are living at home permanently, and millions more are cared for at home due to a temporary illness or ...