By chemotherapy one generally refers to the drug combinations prescribed for the treatment of cancer or tumors. Many side effects of chemotherapy treatments are permanently reported by people undergoing a chemical intervention.
Hair loss or alopecia makes the most visible of the side effects of chemotherapy although we should not jump to the conclusion that any bald person has cancer. Why does hair loss appear to begin with? Well, chemotherapy is a treatment relying on chemicals that are meant either to inhibit or kill the cells that grow or replicate too fast.
The trouble is that the treatment is directed towards all the cells in the body that have this characteristic disregarding whether they are cancer cells or healthy cells. That is why, besides hair loss, many cancer patients may also have to cope with other side effects of chemotherapy related to their digestive system or skin.
Even if this is one of the side effects of chemotherapy that most people are familiar with, we may not know that alopecia is only temporary. Alopecia stops once the treatment is over. Although there may be changes in color and texture, hair will grow back again normally.
There are a few side effects of chemotherapy to say the least, but their intensity could be reduced. In the case of hair loss, prevention is achieved by putting on a cold cap meant to cool the scalp and reduce blood circulation in the area. As a result, the blood will not carry the drug to the hair follicles and this means that one’s hair will be protected from the damage of the drug.
All in all, side effects of chemotherapy are a challenge and doctors are still trying to reduce their number. Even if there may be solutions for a certain problem, lots of them still remain open to research. The same goes for hair loss; the cold cap may have the wanted effect of doing away with alopecia only in the case of certain drugs, but it may not work with some other ones.
April 19th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
New therapeutic drug combinations for tuberculosis treatment.
April 28th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
How about explaining why scientist K. Sakamoto found that low dose irradiation therapy had totally eliminated advanced ovarian cancer? Why would Harvard Medical School use low dose irradiation therapy for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma? This success has led to the recent approval of a proposal for a clinical trial of low dose irradiation therapy in Europe.———-———-——
May 10th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Uses, Side effects of Neupogen
May 27th, 2011 at 1:22 am
If they had other HK shirts, I would have bought more. lol I can never wear the ones from 80stees.
May 29th, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I gained my hair back by wearing Alex Chiu’s Immortality Rings. My hairline went back to when I was 25. The rings really did help me gain lots of hair back.
June 29th, 2011 at 2:40 am
The Bush's are a drug dealin' family.
August 29th, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Chemotherapy which is POISON ! Do not let these doctor poison you. In my country the protocol is Amygdalin / Laetrile. Do research and see why FDA doesnt even allow this substance in USA. They dont want to cured because theres no money in healthy people.
October 12th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Does hair gel (styling gel also), kill your hair follicles or anyways possible damage your hair?
November 10th, 2011 at 5:09 am
Harlem Hospital Encourages Collection of Umbilical Cord Blood – Since December, the Harlem Hospital has been active in counseling people, especially minorities on the advantages and benefits of donating umbilical cord blood as a rich source of cord blood stem cells so vital in treatment of cancer, –