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  1. Wanted: Doctor Who Gets My Response to Hair Loss

    5/21/12 10:33am by beaubeau
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    One in five UK women with hair loss feel neglected by their doctors.  If you ladies thought you might get better care here in the US, think again, not in this Alopecian’s experience.  If a man loses his hair,  Read more >

  2. The Hardest Part of Hair Loss

    5/15/12 8:18am by beaubeau
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    As an Alopecian, the hardest part of hair loss for me is that I am assumed to be sick, or more specifically, to have cancer.  Not only don’t I have cancer, but beyond my immune system’s assault on my hair follicles, I am absolutely healthy.  Bummer?  Yes, but life goes on and I choose to move on with it.  Read more >

  3. Why I Support Facebook's Censoring of The Scar Project's Photos

    5/8/12 7:01am by beaubeau
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    I might be in the minority, but I am okay with Facebook’s decision to censor The Scar Project’s photos of topless women exposing the scars they’ve accumulated in their battles with breast cancer.  Here’s why:  Read more >

  4. Blinded by Hair Loss Help Sites

    5/2/12 10:46am by beaubeau
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    If I told you there was an online “hair loss support” site dedicated to supporting those of us (men, women, and children) with hair loss, maybe you’d think, “That’s great!”  Read more >

  5. Bald Barbie Goes Beaubeau®

    4/10/12 7:06am by beaubeau
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    Sounds like Bald Barbie is in the works and she’ll have company.  MGA’s Bratz and Moxie Girlz are losing their locs as well in solidarity with Bald Barbie and all the doll-loving young girls out there coming to terms with hair loss.  One small step for bald girl-kind.  Top her off with a beaubeau® and we’re talking one giant step for Bald Barbie fashion.  Read more >

  6. The Dual Realities of Breast Cancer Screening

    4/5/12 6:44am by beaubeau
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    More and more studies are telling us that breast cancer screens lead to unnecessary treatment.  I think it all boils down to your focal point, population vs.  Read more >

  7. Wishing for Male Pattern Baldness

    3/29/12 2:02pm by beaubeau
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    I’ve wasted so much time wishing my hair would grow back.  I’m done with it.  I don’t even want it to grow back because it just falls out again and I have to ride the same old roller coaster.  So I have a new wish.  Here it is: I wish I had male pattern baldness.  Read more >

  8. Who Owns Your Breast Cancer Genes?

    3/29/12 9:27am by beaubeau
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    Not so fast Myriad Genetics.  Back to court with you so the judicial system can reconsider the decision to uphold your patents on OUR BRCA genes.  Good news for we BRCA mutation carriers, bad news for you.  Or is it?  Read more >

  9. Hair In All the Wrong Places

    3/19/12 11:03am by beaubeau
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    I want hair.  I so want hair.  I want it to grow thick and long and luscious and to never stop growing.  Read more >

  10. Our Extreme Affliction

    3/13/12 11:51am by beaubeau
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    Alopecia made the list!  Of “My Extreme Afflictions” that is.  It’s a series on ABC’s news show, 20/20, in which they are covering some truly bizarre health inflictions.  It was emotionally difficult to watch the alopecia segment, but as it was sandwiched between Extreme Hoarders and children suffering from  Read more >

Susan Beausang

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Susan Beausang
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July 2008
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I am the President of 4Women.com and designer of the newly patented BeauBeauR head scarf, a fashionable scarf specifically designed for women and girls.  The Beaubeau unites the world of fashion with medical hair loss.  4Women.com's mission is to help women and girls cope with the emotional upheaval of medical hair loss with dignity and confidence and to advocate for greater understanding of the emotional impacts of medical hair loss among medical professionals and the public. I lost my hair quite suddenly in 2002 due to the autoimmune disease, Alopecia Universalis.  Like so many women who experience hair loss, I suddenly found myself alienated and excluded from the worlds of feminine fashion and beauty.  I channeled my fear and depression into a positive and proactive goal of ensuring that I and other women and girls with medical hair loss have a fashionable accessory that empowers us to step back out into the world with dignity, feeling confident and beautiful, not sick.  I come from three generations of breast cancer survivors and am a BRCA2 gene carrier.  At extreme risk for developing breast cancer, I made the bold decision to have my ovaries removed and undergo a prophylactic full mastectomy about nine years ago.  A "pre-vivor," I am cancer-free, but very much empathize with women who lose their hair during chemotherapy.  I strive to be a source of strength and hope for women and girls with medical hair loss. 

Please visit my web site www.4women.com and my blog at same address to learn more about me and my mision.

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