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Pimples and Pustules following Breast Cancer Surgery
Pimples and pustules from breast cancer surgery - or any surgery - can be a side effect caused by a number of conditions. Significant and long surgeries can result in a variety of skin rashes showing...
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Dermatologist’s Advice for the Best Skin Care during Chemotherapy
Using the best skin care during chemotherapy is really important. Your skin is your body's biggest organ and it protects you from germs and other external environmental hazards. You need your skin to...
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Can You Keep Your Brows and Eyelashes during Chemotherapy?
Can you keep your brows and eyelashes during chemotherapy? I felt that if anyone could figure this out it would be me since I'm a dermatologist being treated for aggressive breast cancer. I have been...
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Can You Get a Facial and Makeover on Chemotherapy? Part 1
Dr. Cynthia Bailey was on intensive chemotherapy to treat hereditary breast cancer this fall. On chemo, her normally lovely and well-cared-for skin was drier, duller, and flakier because her skin cells...
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Can You Get a Facial and Makeover on Chemotherapy? Part 2
This is part 2 of Dr. Bailey's chemotherapy facial. To read part 1 click here. When wearing makeup, it was important to Dr. Bailey that we use only natural mineral-based ingredients on her sensitive...
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How to Treat a Dry Nose from Winter or Chemotherapy
The cold and dry air of fall and winter causes chapping of the inside of the nose for almost everybody. How to Treat a Dry Nose from Winter or Chemotherapy My chemotherapy side effects included dry...
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Improve Your Complexion with Green Smoothies
I’m a dermatologist and I think green smoothies can improve your complexion. In fact, I think they can be the fountain of youth for inner physical vitality - a vitality so strong that it radiates out...
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Chemotherapy Skin Problems - Preventing Skin Infections
Preventing skin infections and staying healthy is really important when you are on chemotherapy. One of the biggest - and most preventable - health problems for us chemo patients are skin infections....
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Breast Cancer: How to Tame Chemo Curls and Improve Scars
These great questions about how to tame chemo curls and improve scars after breast cancer treatment came in from reader Isabelle as a comment on my post celebrating my first day back at work after "The...
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Seasonal Tea Recipe Everyone Will Love (Even Your Skin)
Turmeric tea is good for your skin. It is a spice that grows in India and other Asian areas and is primarily used to flavor curries. It has a distinctive gold color and tends to stain things easily...
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Get the Most Cancer-Fighting Power from Tomatoes
How to get the most cancer-fighting power from tomatoes is something every tomato-lover needs to know. Tomatoes are rich in the cancer-fighting antioxidant called lycopene. When I was shopping in the...
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The BRCA Genes and Breast Cancer: Facts to Help Save Lives
There's a lot of buzz around the BRCA genes. If you follow what happened with Angelina Jolie-Pitt, you know she helped bring these genes and their mutation to the forefront of cancer conversations. At...
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Cold Cap Chemo: a Doctor’s Personal Experience
Cold cap chemo as a dermatologist with breast cancer - I didn't see this coming! My experience with using cold caps during chemotherapy turned out to be a comfort to me when I was treated for breast...
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Understanding Hair Changes During Chemotherapy
Hair loss is one of the most emotionally painful parts of the cancer treatment experience for many. Nothing screams "I have cancer!" louder than a bald head and a face without brows and lashes. As a...
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Thriving, Part 1. From Surviving to Thriving With Breast Cancer in 2016
Asking to go from surviving to thriving with breast cancer is not asking too much, in my opinion. Have you or someone you love been hit with the diagnosis of breast cancer? Odds are you have because...
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Thriving, Part 2. How I Went from Feeling Like a Victim of Breast Cancer to a...
How do you go from survivor to thrivor with breast cancer? This is the first week of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October. And this blog article is Part 2 of The Thriving Series.,I am breast cancer...
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Thriving, Part 3. Breast Cancer Forced Me to Jump into The Abyss
Moving from breast cancer victim to survivor, and then thrivor, required that I let go of control. It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this blog article is Part 3 of my Thriving Series, The...
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Thriving, Part 4. Thriving With Cancer Means "Letting" People Help
Going from asking to survive breast cancer to actually becoming a thrivor of breast cancer was a process that meant taking risks. I'm sharing my story with you and people suffering from breast cancer -...
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Thriving, Part 5. Become a Cancer Thrivor by Putting Your Health First
Becoming a Cancer Thrivor by Putting Your Health First is the last in my 5-part blog series called The Thriving Series. We are nearing the end of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In...
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Chemotherapy Port Scars
Chemotherapy port scars are one of the souvenirs of surviving cancer chemotherapy for many of us. When you get a cancer diagnosis, your future chemotherapy port scar is the last things on your mind. It...
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5 Year Cancerversary – The Survival Milestone After High-Grade,...
A 5 year Cancerversary is huge for people surviving high grade triple negative breast cancer. This cancer is so bad that it kills fast when it kills. Yes, I had really bad cancer, so living just five...
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How to Detect Breast Cancer Yourself
It is important for women to know how to detect breast cancer yourself. I know that if I had not done a self breast exam, I would have died from aggressive breast cancer. In between mammograms and...
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Dr. Bailey’s Passion for Breast Cancer Advocacy
Breast cancer hit me hard with shock and terror in 2013. It’s still front and center in my life with gratitude and acceptance. I survived, I learned, my life changed, and I met some amazing people that...
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