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BOSTON, MS — Indian American reporter and anchor at NBC Boston Natasha Verma, who, having felt the pain of losing her hair to cancer in 2017, has now decided to do something for other cancer patients.
The 23-year-old, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2017 and has been in remission since November 2017, has initiated a project, “Put a Cap on Cancer,” through which she will provide free stylish “cap wigs” to patients battling the disease.
Verma was a healthy woman in her early 20s. Everything was going well for her until one morning, she felt a lump on her neck. Doctors found fast-growing malignant tumors on both sides of her collarbone and in her chest. She was diagnosed with stage 2 Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
With a race against time, she immediately underwent aggressive chemotherapy for months at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The hardest part of her cancer treatment, Verma explains, was chemotherapy, which led to hair loss. And she found herself struggling with finding the right wig.
“Losing my hair was one of the hardest parts of chemotherapy,” Verma wrote on Facebook. She added that every wig is 100 percent human hair–available in 80 colors–that is permanently attached to a cap, “creating a ready-to-wear look with no styling needed.”
“Your donation will be a tremendous gift to a woman or child undergoing chemotherapy. More than just hair, you are giving the gift of confidence, hope and strength,” she wrote.
All donations will go toward the Leukemia and Lymphoma Research Fund at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, where she was treated.