Cancer survivor’s wig shop

Haley Bennion, owner of Duo Hair and Beauty - photo by Steve Cobb

A Horsham hairdresser who has fought cancer is setting up a wig shop and hair loss clinic so she can tell other patients ‘it’s going to be OK’.

Hayley Bennion, 30, owner of Duo Hair and Beauty, in New Street, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer, in May last year.

She had intense chemotherapy which involved her being treated for 92 hours at a time.

The mother-of-two said losing her hair through that treatment was almost more distressing for her than hearing she had cancer.

She said: “It was a really intense treatment. I lost my hair within 13 days of the first treatment.

“I was told it was such an aggressive harsh treatment and there was no way of keeping any of it.

“My whole life has always been around hair. That’s what I’ve always done. So in a way that was worse than hearing the cancer word.”