W. Sisters’ Beauty Salon: Beauty Beyond Cancer
A specialist hair and beauty salon provides a safe haven for women to share their stories about living with cancer.
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Every year about 14 million people learn that they have cancer. It is one of the leading causes of death globally.
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The “W” sisters, Joanna Wiszniewska and Jolanta Wiewiora, survived and set up a unique beauty salon in the Polish port city of Szczecin.
W Sisters’ Beauty Salon specialises in hair and beauty treatments for cancer patients.
The two sisters know from their own experience how difficult it can be for cancer patients to visit a hairdresser or a beautician, before and after chemotherapy.
They provide a safe haven for women to talk freely about their illness and the challenges they face, and encourage them to feel positive about the future.