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How does chemotherapy affect your hair?

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How does chemotherapy affect your hair?

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Chemotherapy often causes hair loss otherwise known as Alopecia. Chemotherapy drugs are powerful medications that attack rapidly growing cancer cells. Unfortunately, these drugs also attack other rapidly growing cells in your body including those in your hair roots. It is so common because hair follicle cells multiply very quickly like cancer cells and chemotherapy drugs have difficulty in discerning the difference. Chemotherapy may cause hair loss all over your body not just on your scalp. Sometimes your eyelash, eyebrow, armpit, pubic and other body hair also falls out.

Fortunately, most of the time hair loss from chemotherapy is temporary. Hair usually begins falling out 10 to 14 days after you start treatment. It could fall out very quickly in clumps or gradually. Generally, you can lose about 50 percent of your hair before it's noticeable to other people.

After your treatment ends, It will takes about four to six weeks for your hair to recover from chemotherapy. In general, you can expect about a quarter inch of growth each month and you can expect to regrow a full head of hair six months to a year, though your hair may temporarily be a different shade or texture.

There is no prevention or medication to combat hair loss during chemotherapy treatment. Several treatments have been investigated as possible ways to prevent hair loss, but none has been absolutely effective, including:

1. Scalp hypothermia (cryotherapy)
   During your chemotherapy, ice packs or similar devices are placed on your head to slow blood flow to your scalp. This way, chemotherapy drugs are less likely to have an effect on your scalp. Most people who try this procedure find it to be uncomfortable and very cold. The cold cap system

2. Minoxidil (Rogaine)
   A drug approved for pattern hair loss in men and women — to your scalp before and during chemotherapy isn't likely to prevent your hair loss, although some research shows it may speed up your hair regrowth.
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