Workshop of make-up for patients with cancer, first joint activity of the foundations Tejerina and Ángela Navarro.

-both entities signed a collaboration agreement to develop outreach activities for women with breast cancer

-The first joint activity will be a workshop of makeup where techniques will be taught to correct areas of the face that are altered by disease

– a positive mood favors the effectiveness of any action of the medical Protocol ”, recognizes Dr. Armando Tejerina, on initiatives such as this course

– when we are well, we feel better ”, explains Ángela Navarro, who has made the phrase its founding motto

Madrid, March of 2013- the care of women with breast cancer includes more and more aspects of their care aesthetician as element to improve mood and, therefore their quality of life during the illness. In order to integrate medical treatment with other facets of care of the patient with breast cancer, the Foundation Tejerina has signed a collaboration agreement with the Foundation Angela Navarro for the joint organization of activities that benefit women in the management of the side effects of cancer.

The first joint activity of both foundations will be a workshop of reconstructor makeup which will take place on Thursday, March 21. During this training session, aimed at patients in treatment, attendees will learn how to correct areas of the face that have altered by effects produced by the disease and its treatments, such as loss of eyebrows and eyelashes, Erythema ( redness ”), discoloration of the skin or scars.

As explained by Dr. Armando Tejerina, scientific director of the pathology of the breast Center, the mood before the disease is the most important instrument to deal with any circumstance during medical or surgical treatment. A positive mood favors the effectiveness of any action of the medical Protocol ”.

During the workshop, the professionals of the Foundation Angela Navarro will reveal tricks customized to each Assistant so they can learn to make the most of their own makeup products. When we are well, we feel better. With workshops like this sick gain in freedom ”, says Ángela Navarro.

Today there are spectacular advances in medicine and cancer has become a chronic disease where the patient lives, so that we can not set aside the importance that they have aesthetic in this way they will not lose their identity ”, explains Ángela Navarro.

Ángela Navarro and Armando Tejerina following the signing of the agreement of both foundations.

In addition to the joint organization of social activities, related to the objectives of the two foundations, the cooperation agreement between the Tejerina Foundation and the Foundation Angela Navarro materialize in the realization of courseware, disclosure to patientsthe implementation of studies and research projects, exchange of information and the publication of books.

About the Foundation Tejerina

The Foundation Tejerina is within the pathology of the breast Center, created in the mid-1970s in Madrid with the aim of providing comprehensive assistance in this area of medicine, under the scientific leadership of Dr. Armando Tejerina,

La Fundación Tejerina was constituted in 1998, with the objective of promotion, development, protection, dissemination and promotion of all kinds of studies, as well as procedures and research related to the health and life sciences, cancer, breast cancer, especially, the development of medicine, law and the Humanities, teaching, research and health technology innovation ”.

About the Foundation Angela Navarro

The Foundation Angela Navarro has been a pioneer in the study and development of methodologies applied to reparative aesthetics, especially focused on people who need these techniques to reinforce your self-esteem and make progress in his recovery by illness or accidents.

The Foundation was created in order to give esthetic solutions to these people, using their knowledge in the care of personal image and experience in this field after more than one decade of work with patients.