How come when you have cancer your hair falls out?

frawildcat asked:


What type of cancer is it? and why does it fall out?

cancer help

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8 Responses to “How come when you have cancer your hair falls out?”

1. cancer help Says:
   September 17th, 2009 at 8:52 am

   cancer help

   It’s usually a side effect of the chemotherapy, not the cancer.

2. Anonymous Says:
   September 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   Cancer doesn’t make your hair fall out chemotherapy and radiation do.

3. Anonymous Says:
   September 22nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm

   cancer help

   it doesnt. Chemotheorpy makes it fall out, this is a treatment used to fight malignant cancers but doctors dont normally like using it.

4. Anonymous Says:
   September 24th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

   The chemotherapy medicine used to treat cancer is what generally makes a person’s hair fall out. Some people do not lose their hair even with chemotherapy.

5. cancer help Says:
   September 27th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

   cancer help

   Well this is a type of Chemotherapy

   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.

   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 fall out. Some chemotherapy drugs are more likely than others to cause hair loss, and different doses can cause anything from a mere thinning to complete baldness. Talk to your doctor or nurse about the medication you’ll be taking. Your doctor or nurse can tell you what to expect.

   Fortunately, most of the time hair loss from chemotherapy is temporary. You can expect to regrow a full head of hair six months to a year after you stop treatment, though your hair may temporarily be a different shade or texture.

   bye!!

6. cancer help Says:
   September 30th, 2009 at 5:05 pm

   kemo is the hair scalper not cancer itself. Radia
   tion therapy will also cause hair lost. Sometime certain types of medication will cause a person hair to fall out even if they do not have cancer. THe type of cancer doesn’t matter ,it’s the treatment involve in ridding the cancer is the culprit. If this is your situation ,wigs are a girls best friend

7. cancer help Says:
   October 1st, 2009 at 9:16 pm

   cancer help

   Cancer does not cause your hair to fall out. It is a side effect of may types of chemotherapy.

8. cancer help Says:
   October 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 am

   Cancer does not cause the hair to fall out… Its the treatments that do that.. Weather its radiation or chemo..

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