Most of us cannot wait to leave a hospital, but Christine Fabiani walks into UCI Medical Center like Little Red Riding Hood toting her basket full of goodies. This is no fairy tale. She’s heading to ...

Your favorite knitting season has arrived: it's time to make chemo caps for JFK and Hunterdon medical centers. We have free patterns for knitting or crochet on our ...

The purple baby hats are for the Clicks for Babies Campaign by Prevent Child Abuse NJ and the National Center for Shaken Baby Syndrome. Remember, PURPLE stands for Peak of crying / Unexpected / ...

Irene Olson never had cancer, but she knows how grueling chemotherapy can be. Her late husband, Kenneth, died in 1987 after two years of the drug treatments. Among the painful side effects he suffered ...

BACKGROUND: The chemo cold cap is soft, elastic, covered by a thermo insulate that is used to cool the scalps metabolism and blood flow, to protect the hair follicles from chemo drugs. Hair loss is an ...

Bald can be beautiful, but a hairless head makes for a chilled body. — That's partially what inspired retired Chicago public school teacher Polly Madel to start crafting for a cause. After several ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma--revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep ...

In December, I joined the 1 in 8 women in the United States diagnosed with breast cancer. Found on a routine mammogram, my tumor was small, and by all measures I had the best prognosis possible. The ...