Every woman diagnosed with breast cancer faces the diagnosis with great difficulty, and the treatment process is equally challenging. Chemotherapy, in particular, is tough, as it carries with it consequences that may be the worst for a woman’s mental state – hair loss. There are solutions for hair loss due to chemotherapy that have been on the market for some time, such as Rogaine foam that strengthens hair, and a new product that appeared on the market last year is special caps that stimulate hair growth.
Hair loss occurs between two and four weeks after the start of chemotherapy, and the effect is individual; some women lose part of their hair, while others lose all of it. In some cases, the hair loss process is gradual, while in others, it happens suddenly.
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Some chemotherapy agents affect only the hair, while others also cause loss of eyelashes and eyebrows. Approximately one month after stopping therapy, hair begins to regrow, and sometimes the new hair is a different color or texture; however, after a few months, the texture returns to what it was before the loss.
Chemotherapy, however, is not the only cancer treatment that causes hair loss. Hormonal therapy with tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors causes hair weakening.
The market has an increasing number of cooling caps as their popularity grows, and at the end of last year, one of them was recognized by the American Food and Drug Administration, writes Health Line. This is the DigniCap scalp cooling system that reduces the likelihood of hair loss due to chemotherapy.
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