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Wig drive to help cancer patients
Lanier Tech cosmetology students will cut and clean wigs
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Lena Sexton, 71, checks herself out in a mirror Monday after trying on wigs at the Guilford Diagnostic Clinic in Gainesville. The Cancer Center at Northeast Georgia Medical Center and the American Cancer Society are sponsoring the third annual “A Good Hair Day” Wig Drive. The wig drive gives wigs free of charge to women cancer patients. - photo by SARA GUEVARA
After two weeks of cancer treatments, Amber Gaddis stood in front of her bathroom mirror with her niece while she shaved her head. The 34-year-old mother of two was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer — cancer that doesn’t respond to hormone therapy. “That meant that for sure I was going to lose my hair,” Gaddis said.