Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Does cancer make your hair fall out or treatment for cancer

Does cancer make your hair fall out or treatment for cancer?
A long time ago I heard that cancer itself does not make your hair fall out that the chemo treatment causes it. Recently I just heard that having cancer can make your hair fall out before chemo is even started. What is true?
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1 :
The chemo make your hair fall out not the cancer itsself **my aunts had cancer (breast) one had just radiation and didnt lose her hair the other had chemo and lost her hair.
2 :
chemotherapy is what makes your hair fall out
3 :
Chemotherapy makes your hair fall out because it kills the fastest growing cells which is directed at cancer cells but also includes your hair cells.
4 :
the treatment
5 :
duh. the treatment
6 :
it is the chemo that makes your hair fall out because chemo kills cells to get rid of the cancer. hair falling out is a side effect because chemo cant exactly distinguish between good and bad cells and it ends up killing hair cells. i suppose that there may be a type of cancer that makes hair fall out on it's own but cancer is a tumor usually, and i have yet to hear of a cancer that does makes your hair fall out.
7 :
Chemotherapy is the cause because it does not just kill the cancer cells, it kills other ones too, and this causes the hair to fall out.
8 :
the chemotherapy
9 :
Many, but not all, chemotherapy regimes cause hair loss. Some cause hair thinning, and some don't cause hair loss at all. Radiotherapy/radiation is a localised treatment and doesn't cause hair loss unless it's to a part of the body that has hair, such as the head. Cancer doesn't cause hair loss.
10 :
chemotherapy makes your hair fall out it kills the cancer cells and ur hair cells cancer doesnt and ur hair doesnt even fall out til maybe 2 weeks after treatment starts




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