Can chemotherapy affect hair growth?

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  • alora
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2016
    • 1

    Can chemotherapy affect hair growth?

    Chemotherapy can cause hair cells to stop dividing, resulting in hair loss.

    In some cases patients lose as much as 90% of their scalp hair, others lose none. Sometimes this hair grows back when the cancer treatment ends, sometimes it doesn't. Common chemotherapy drugs that can hair loss include methotrexate, cyclophosohamide, bleomycin, doxorubicin, mitomycin, cytarabine, vinblastine and vincristine.

    In many cases, hair begins to grow back two to three months after chemotherapy is over. New hair may be different than it used to be in terms of texture, thickness and color. It’s common for hair to grow back finer, curlier and grayer than it was before.
  • juliedespino
    Junior Member
    • Sep 2016
    • 6

    #2
    Yes, By chemotherapy will defiantly lose hair cells.

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    • owlpure
      Junior Member
      • Nov 2018
      • 1

      #3
      My uncle has undergone this, i physically saw how the effects will be with chemotherapy. May be using oils can help to get through this situation.

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