A diagnosis of cancer is terrifying, but the course of treatment intended to cure the patient can leave her with a face and body that seems scarier than the microscopic disease she is fighting.

What’s a girl who is trying to cope with the onslaught of illness do about the unavoidable beauty challenges chemotherapy creates? She could spend hours on the web, searching for articles about chemotherapy treatments. She could call her stunned and worried friends and ask for their advice. She could even drag her weak and weary body to various cosmetic counters for an impromptu primer on moisturizers and false eyelashes.

Or she can tune into Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls, and find the answers she seeks every Sunday morning.

Hosted by journalist and breast cancer survivor Marybeth Maida and cosmetics industry veteran Debbie Kiederer, Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls gives women, their supporters and friends the personal tips and tricks of today’s leaders in fashion and beauty.

Expert guests in fashion, beauty, health, and medicine provide practical, hands-on solutions to many problems chemo girls encounter as they fight disease, and promises to be the go-to spot on the radio dial for women who want to keep looking their best while they deal with the worst.

With warmth, grace, humor and compassion, Beauty Pearls for Chemo Girls takes the host’s book of the same name and brings it to life on the air, giving women a priceless weapon in their war against illness; the ability to face the mirror – and the world – without embarrassment, self consciousness or fear.