Excerpt: Hiding Your Cancer is Unhealthy

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I have permission from book publisher Press On Regardless

to distribute an excerpt from " Turning Heads, " a collection

of powerful photographs of beautiful, bald women. They are

bald because they have cancer. They are beautiful because

they have been buffed by stylists and captured by some of

the best photographers in the world -- four Pulitzer Prize

winners among them. And they are powerful because they no

longer hide their cancer -- or hide behind it.

Many women diagnosed with cancer fear losing their hair

more than losing their lives. This fear can prevent them

from getting proper treatment. When they do get treatment,

hair loss adds insult to injury and can lead to lowered

self-esteem.

The standard reaction is to cover up with a wig or scarf,

but that's not true anymore, according to editor

Hunsicker, who spent five years assembling these inspiring

images. " The women in these pictures are out in the world,

doing things, getting on with their lives while they

recover. They teach us all a much needed lesson that bald

is a look you can live with. "

The excerpt I'm distributing features a photograph by film

producer and children's book author .

To get the excerpt, send mailto:stevokeefe@...

with the subject line " Send . " Because the excerpt

includes an image, I have to send the photo as a file

attachment. If you cannot receive file attachments, you

can find the photo at http://tinyurl.com/l9enb.