Cancer Patients Given Outlandish Makeovers to Help Take Their Mind Off the Disease

Advocacy group creates art show from their reactions

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My father's girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. Doctors have the treatment covered, but medical care isn't the only thing she needs. Above all, she's been looking for something, anything, to make her laugh and smile—a distraction to take her mind off it and let her truly live life again.

That's why this video hit me so hard. The same insight, that people with cancer are looking to forget their illness, however briefly, led to the creation of this makeover experiment appropriately called "If Only for a Second."

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