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Causes: Health
Mission: The organization's mission is to assist cancer patients in minimizing chemotherapy-related alopecia by using cold caps therapy.
Results: We have helped several hundred keep their hair during chemo.
Target demographics: chemo patients minimize hair loss
Direct beneficiaries per year: over 150 chemo patients
Geographic areas served: the United States
Programs: Had a booth in the american society of clinical oncologists conference in Chicago in June 2014. Many medical professionals learned about scalp cooling therapy at this conference. Spread fliers and other materials to several cancer clinics. Advised hundreds of patients on protocol for using scalp cooling and trained cappers (people who stay with the patient and assist with changing caps). Subsidized scalp cooling equipment rentals all over the U. S.