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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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.

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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   Although the results have not been impressive in stopping or preventing hair loss, it has been postulated that topical minoxidil is effective in reducing the period of baldness by an average of fifty days. Several studies have described limiting drug delivery to the scalp by using a scalp tourniquet during chemotherapy. If scalp or brain ...

7. Jill Martin details treatment that saved 70% of her hair ...

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   The idea is that the intense cold narrows the blood vessels in the scalp, reducing the amount of the chemo drug that gets into the follicles, preventing as many hairs from falling out, according ...