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Chemotherapy Hair Loss: 'Cooling Caps' Tested To Help Cancer Patients Keep Hair

Chemotherapy Hair Loss

First Posted: 12/27/10 01:09 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

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A handful of San Francisco breast cancer patients are donning frigid skullcaps to test a device designed to keep hair tightly rooted during chemotherapy.

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A handful of San Francisco breast cancer patients are donning frigid skullcaps to test a device designed to keep hair tightly rooted during chemotherapy.
A handful of San Francisco breast cancer patients are donning frigid skullcaps to test a device designed to keep hair tightly rooted during chemotherapy.
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02:28 PM on 12/27/2010
Just one more manufactured symptom that we'll be putting a bandage over instead of addressing root causes. How about conventional cancer treatments start curing with proven natural methods that don't kill off healthy cells?
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01:41 PM on 12/27/2010
One thing that I never see mentioned in the stories of hair loss and chemo is pain. I've had a couple of friends who went through chemo....one has had to undergo it several times...and each time they both said that it physically hurts to lose their hair. She now shaves it off before the chemo which helps a little.
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