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CHEMOTHERAPY - you must know about this

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Tuesday, 28 April 2009 12:56

CHEMOTHERAPY - you must know about this

Many side effects of chemotherapy treatments are permanently reported by people. Hairloss or Alopecia is one of them.

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.

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Treatment is directed towards all the cells in the body that have this characteristic disregarding whether they are cancer cells or healthy cells. Alopecia stops once the treatment is over. Although there may be changes in color and texture, hair will grow back again normally.

How much hair you lose?

It depends on the type of chemotherapy you have. 

Chemotherapy has been seen as the most disparaging medical treatments of all that results in sometimes, permanent hair loss. Apart from this, medicines containing chemicals like isotretinoin, and lithium also lead to the problems of hair loss.

For more information about medications and treatments which causes Hair Loss please read full article here.  
Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 April 2009 13:20
 
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