American Cancer Society Services To Be Offered In Mount Airy, North Carolina Part 3

The new resource center could also house the “Look Good, Feel Better” program.. In this an American Cancer Society program, trained cosmetologists talk to cancer patients and give active treatment how to apply makeup and how to best to treat skin changes and hair loss. Each patient also receives a makeup kit valued at $250. Bottomley said that “It’s a huge boost for their morale.” The program could take place there once a month.

Donna Rudy, the fund-raising chair for Relay for Life, said that she believes the center is very much required in this locality. “Every person you talk to has had a friend with cancer or been there.” A friend of Donna Rudy’s just passed away because of cancer. She said the “Look Good, Feel Better” program would have really helped her friend. “It would’ve made her feel good, because when you go through chemo you feel rotten,” Rudy remarked. She discussed hair loss and why a wig closet is so important: “Hair is an identity for some people.”

After a building is secured, the American Cancer Society will recruit volunteers to run the center. Each volunteer will be taught about an American Cancer Society programs and trained how to deal with customers. In the future, they hope that the center will be able to serve people for several hours every day.

American Cancer Society Services To Be Offered In Mount Airy Part 2

Lisa Bottomley, a local community manager for the American Cancer Society in North Carolina said that the new resource center in Mount Airy will serve as more than a wig closet and location for cancer information. The building can be used to provide several additional services. They will try to have Internet access so that patients could read the ACS Web site and find information about the disease. There can also be a section with self help books. In Addition supplements and other items would be available to patients. Unfortunately, most people cannot afford the supplements that are needed.

She emphasized that the services would be free for cancer patients. The center will serve all cancer patients, women, men and children.