“Bald is beautiful,” said Darlene Garland as she whipped off her homemade chemotherapy cap. “I’ve lost it five times, but it comes back with curls.” On Dec. 6, Garland will celebrate 32 years in the ...

In today's column in the Courier News and Home News Tribune, I asked readers to consider making cotton hats for chemotherapy patients, and I said I'd provide some patterns here on the blog. I don't ...

Last Friday, I delivered about 30 chemo caps, all cotton and cotton blends, to the Memorial Sloan Cancer Center in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards. I had called ahead to say I'd be coming and ...

DRACUT — When the people she cares about are diagnosed with cancer, Linda Lambert finds herself putting needle to cloth as a way to help. The lifelong Dracut resident, who has been sewing since she ...

Chemotherapy drugs are powerful and not particularly discerning. They targets cells that divide quickly. Cancer cells divide quickly. But so do hair cells—that’s why those undergoing chemotherapy wind ...