When Amanda Butler was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32, the prospect of chemotherapy was daunting. “That was the last thing I wanted to do. I was like I don’t want to lose my hair,” Butler ...

WASHINGTON -- Hair loss is one of the most despised side effects of chemotherapy, and now breast cancer patients are getting a new way to try to save their locks. The Food and Drug Administration said ...

To help prevent hair loss for eligible breast-cancer patients in chemotherapy, Mount Sinai South Nassau Breast Health Services is now offering cold-cap therapy. Cold-cap therapy was cleared by the U.S ...

Sharon Arkin is among a handful of women in Arizona on a quest to save their hair. Arkin was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in February and underwent a hysterectomy at Tucson Medical Center. The 72 ...

“Whenever I first talk about giving chemotherapy to a patient, the very first question they ask is, ‘I know this sounds silly, but am I going to lose my hair?’” Dr. Susan Kim of Southcoast Health, a ...

Jen Tassi felt like a bobblehead as her oncologist explained her breast cancer diagnosis, the various drugs that would make up her chemotherapy treatments and how and when they’d be delivered. The ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Hair loss due to chemotherapy can be an emotional experience for cancer patients. Now, researchers at Michigan State University are developing a new product to stop hair loss.

Losing hair is one of the most noticeable and upsetting side effect for cancer patients going through chemotherapy. But a new process, called cold cap therapy, is helping more of these patients keep ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S. About 240,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year in the U.S. alone according ...

Wearing a bulky, blue contraption on her head at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital’s Cancer Center on Friday, Christy Castronovo jokingly called herself a trendsetter. Castronovo was referring to the fashion ...

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