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Custom Wear Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) is the leading provider of cancer care and research in the world. The Life at MSK blog describes the organization’s commitment to providing the highest quality, personalized care to its patients and their families. As part of this commitment, Memorial Sloan Kettering is proud to offer custom wear items for its patients. These custom wear items provide unique and personalized benefits to those who have been diagnosed with cancer.

The most obvious benefit that customized wear provides to MSK patients is improvement in their self-image. During the course of cancer treatment, patients can often lose their sense of identity and feel disconnected from their previous lives. With custom wear, patients can take this as an opportunity to regain their sense of identity and understanding of who they are. By providing customized items that allow patients to express themselves and feel comfortable in their own skin, Memorial Sloan Kettering is providing a powerful tool for the recovery process.

Custom wear also helps inefficient mobility and comfort during a cancer patient's recovery process. Some of the custom wear items available offer compression and support for the patient's weakened muscles and ligaments. Compression apparel can also be worn during physical therapy sessions to improve activity levels and flexibility.

On top of this, custom wear can also be used for physical therapy and rehabilitation programs that can provide special orthotic braces and supports that are designed for the unique postural needs of cancer patients. By improving postural support and motion control, custom wear can help reduce pain and fatigue associated with physical therapy sessions and can improve the patient's overall quality of life.

The most unique and rewarding benefit of custom wear at Memorial Sloan Kettering is the ability to show off the fight against cancer. Many MSK patients choose to create custom wear items that function as a reminder of overcoming their disease. This can be in the form of shirts and hats with MSK’s logo, colors, and even special inspirational messages.

Custom wear is much more than a fashion statement. It provides unique benefits to MSK patients and helps them stay positive and motivated during their treatment. The meaningless phrase "look good, feel good" has no doubt been used by many organizations, however, at MSK, this phrase has been taken to a much higher level, providing much more than superficial beauty. It provides sincerity, comfort, and an individualized cancer care journey that cannot be replicated anywhere else.