ABSTRACT
According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, the number of new cancer cases is estimated to increase to 23.6 million by 2030 [1], but we should not be pessimistic; thanks to great scientific progress, patient survival is growing at an annual rate of 1%, in many cases even reaching the stage of being considered “merely” a chronic disease [2]. This has changed the needs of oncological patients; cancer is no longer synonymous with death but, after the impact that the diagnosis has on them, patients must make a significant adaptive effort to confront and accept a series of physical, personal, and somewhat permanent changes that will condition their entire reality and that of the people around them [3]. Body image and aesthetic care are becoming increasingly important—even being demanded from the hospital [4]—and will represent a means of accepting or bearing the burden of the treatments and their side effects, providing patients with hope and optimism for the future and thereby improving their quality of life [5–7].
