It's called "Donna...oltre il cancro" (Woman...beyond cancer), the beautiful project created by Acto Sicilia or the Alliance Against Ovarian Cancer. A network that supports patients and families. Everything was born from Daniela Spampinato, biologist, mother and teacher who, once discovered the cancer has decided to share and help.
So a board of directors was formed by Daniela as president, Annamaria Motta, a lawyer from Syracuse, also suffering from ovarian cancer.
And then a medical team of excellence formed by Professor Paolo Scollo, Dr. Giuseppe Scibilia and Dr. Giusy Scandurra. But not only, also Daniela's sister Stefania Spampinato, beloved face of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, has become a member of ACTO Sicily.
The goal of the initiative? To celebrate life and tell the story of the women who, with their strength and determination, face this oncological disease every day.
Orazio Tomarchio - make-up artist and Owner of La Truccheria Cherie meta and beauty boutique with its headquarters in Catania - has been working closely with beauty for years.
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In fact, he has been entrusted - for his Make-Up - with movie and music stars, queens and international style icons.
For Tomarchio, beauty is a perfect combination of aesthetics, harmony and above all balance: exterior and interior.
Here then is his motto: "All women are beautiful and all must feel beautiful. Make-up helps to face the disease and to look at oneself in the mirror, with a positive look towards the future that will be".
So - in support of the project - she spent a day with these extraordinary women who day after day struggle with the disease, covering them with care, pampering and beauty treatments. Each of them is special, as is every woman.
Anna Maria, a young patient, writes of having rediscovered her femininity: "the amazing afternoon I spent at the Cherie Truccheria together with the other patients was a moment to become aware of my new image after the effects of the therapies, of how to enhance it and how to bring back the "woman" who was there before the cancer and who actually continues to live in its many facets".
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The project of Acto Sicilia, curated by oncologist Giusy Scandurra and psycho-oncologist Sonia La Spina, is to mitigate the impact of chemotherapy treatments on women's lives. In fact, "chemo" puts a strain on a person's self-esteem because it causes numerous and obvious transformations such as hair loss, paleness and dry skin.
In Italy today there are more than four thousand women who receive a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, one of the most frequently treated cancer diseases with chemotherapy.
The project "Woman... beyond cancer" thus shows how patients going through important stages of diagnosis and treatment, face life in three different situations. And everything is documented with three videos - the direction is by Francesco Sciacca, president of the Sicilian video-photographers - that tell the everyday life of "I every day" until the occasion of the event, in the second video where is told the fragility of "every woman", even the most beautiful, at the thought of appearing in public on special occasions, until the third video "I and him" where it gives voice to men, the companions of women with ovarian cancer talking also about sexuality.
But not only. Because in the three videos are inserted - between the stories of patients - also the interventions of experts such as the gynecologist Gabriella D'Agate, the stylist Marco Strano and also that of Makeup Artist Orazio Tomarchio that with great generosity provide advice and support to improve the life of women ... beyond cancer.
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