Wig library is a supporting activity that was created based on real needs, in order to improve and advance the quality of life for the community of cancer patients and especially help them to be more confident with their appearance, be braver in the battle against cancer.įurthermore, after two years of launching the wig library which has mainly used chemical fibre materials, BCNV wishes to establish and refine the library with natural hair resources so that cancer patients in general and particularly breast cancer patients can have better experience with natural material wigs than artificial ones (higher quality, more comfortable, easier in styling and taking care of and longer duration of use). These losses are vulnerability that cannot be retrieved. It is easy for people to think of a cancer patient with their hairless scalp due to long term treatment with chemotherapy, but for breast cancer patients, beside losing their hair, they lose one more precious thing, it is their beauty and pride of a woman: their breasts. Breast cancer not only shortens my lifespan, but also steals my most precious 20 years of a human life… forces me to witness my own suffering and loss… A lot of men see me and they wonder how can anyone love a woman like that.” (Thương Sobey – Founder of BCNV).īreast cancer not only leaves patients in physical pain but damages their mental health as well. Skin wrinkled easily, darkened my face became pale, gaunt and extremely fatigued. My skinhead was giving it away: I am a cancer patient.
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