BEAUTY AND CANCER

Take care of your body and feel beautiful (or handsome!) Is an important element that contributes to mental balance, sense of well-being. This is of course true, if not obvious when one is healthy but should not be overlooked when one has the misfortune to fall ill. While the body is maltreated by the disease, treatment often very aggressive but the appearance must be preserved by appropriate treatment.

"The desire to be beautiful" despite the illness is a legitimate request made by many women with breast cancer as demonstrated a few years ago a survey conducted at the Institut Curie. And if reconstructive surgery is now an integral part of cancer surgery, one can hope that tomorrow, beauty treatments will also be a response "natural."

Booths aesthetic hospital

Feel beautiful or handsome is not something trivial and helps maintain morale, while also being a way of expressing a desire not to be dominated by the disease. Because taking care of her appearance may have positive effects on morale and thus on the evolution of the disease, some began to introduce the beauty treatments at the hospital. Thus booths beauty treatments are emerging in some centers cancer treatment as is the case at the Institut Curie.

These treatments, however, represent significant costs, especially if we ensure the permanent presence of a beautician. To address this issue economic associations have created, funded by generous patrons. This applies to the association France CEW (Cosmetic Executive Women), which has already ensured the establishment of 10 centers in beauty care facilities in the Paris region and to develop its activities in the region.

Beauty treatments to rehabilitate an image

The disease affects the body image can have of himself, beauty services needed as a way to rehabilitate that image. Through his work as a beautician helps the patient to forget his illness. This is especially true during care in booths aesthetic patients reported there to forget their illness, find relaxation which is so lacking when one is subjected to the rhythm often very restrictive treatment. This rehabilitation of the image itself, but through the eyes of his entourage, friends she's done. Gaze of others is indeed a fearsome mirror in which we receive many messages!

Continue beauty care at home

You used to make beauty treatments before the disease. Above all, do not give up the pretext that you are sick. These treatments will help you morally and stronger (stronger) to confront the disease and fight it. Will this be affected by the evolution of the disease? Not directly but indirectly of course, certainly, for the simple reason that all doctors know that the will to fight the disease accounts for much of the therapeutic result. However, beauty can only help to strengthen this commitment.

Above all, do not believe that beauty is the prerogative of women! The market for beauty products for men is growing very rapidly right now, showing well as they too want to treat their aesthetics, whether or not patients.