Simple Self-Care Tips to Help Boost Your Confidence During Cancer Treatment

Difficult as it is to cope with cancer itself, it can be just as heart-wrenching to deal with the more superficial physical changes. Cancer and its treatments can impact your self-image. Generally, some physical changes you may experience as a cancer patient include:

• Thinning or loss of hair.
• Changes in weight.
• Changes in skin tone and color of nails.
• Skin scarring.
• Changes in physical performance or abilities.
• Changes in posture.
• Changes in bodily or reproductive functions (i.e., infertility)
• Swelling in the limbs (i.e., lymphedema)
  

These changes in your physical appearance may encourage a sense of self-consciousness or embarrassment about your body, which may later lead to depression and …read more