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2. Cooling Caps help cancer patients avoid hair loss during ...

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   May 4—PORTSMOUTH — Any cancer diagnosis can be devastating. Even the treatment can be hard. For many, one of the most emotional and difficult parts of receiving chemotherapy is the loss of hair.

3. This helmet could help stop hair loss during cancer treatment

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   With some types of the disease, such as breast cancer, hair loss can occur in 99.9% of chemotherapy patients. Although hair usually grows back within a few months of treatment ending, hair loss ...

4. How an icy therapy helped SLO breast cancer survivor ... - AOL

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   Cold capping is an evidence-based solution to prevent hair loss from chemotherapy. Cold caps or scalp cooling systems are tight-fitting hats that cancer patients can wear during chemotherapy ...

5. Hypothermia cap - Wikipedia

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   Hypothermia caps appear useful to prevent hair loss during some kinds of chemotherapy, specifically when taxanes or anthracyclines are used. [6] It should not be used when cancer is present in the skin of the scalp or in people with lymphoma or leukemia. [7] There are generally only minor side effects from treatment. [8]

6. Anagen effluvium - Wikipedia

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   Patients should be instructed to avoid chemical trauma to the hair. This includes hot appliances, bleach, or color treatments in the time leading up to and during chemotherapy. If possible, patients should be given resources to obtain hairpieces or protective scarves before hair loss and educated on the benefits such garments offer, including ...

7. Chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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   Chemotherapy induced hair loss occurs by a non-androgenic mechanism, and can manifest as alopecia totalis, telogen effluvium, or less often alopecia areata. [102] It is usually associated with systemic treatment due to the high mitotic rate of hair follicles, and more reversible than androgenic hair loss, [ 103 ] [ 104 ] although permanent ...