why cancer patient wii lost their hairs when they undergo chemothrerapy?
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Cancer is uncontrolled, disorganized cell growth, usually at a rate more rapid than normal cell growth/repair. Chemotherapy works by targeting the most rapidly dividing cells. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect method. There are some cells in the body which normally divide in a controlled manner at a rapid rate. These cells include the hair follicles, cells lining the gastrointestinal tract, and blood cells. These cells are often mistakenly affected by chemotherapy, which causes hair loss, diarrhea, and low blood counts.
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No natural cures for getting hair back.  Unless you were taking Steroids or chemotherapy,  most hair will return when you stop a medication that caused hairloss.
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Believe me it does.. my daughter lost her hair three times in a row came back everytime and the last time it came back and no more chemo..its more full then ever ..It is a fact of life that it does.. cant tell you why but I have seen it happen with my own eyes..she is healthy now and full head of hair and no worries..
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no, cancer can only attack living tissue. hair is not living tissue!
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*Noddling solemnly* While many disagree I have to say yes, chemicals (even in conditioners and shampoos) can damage hair. One should only wash their hair often enough to keep it clean. Daily doses can over do it, especially if you use the rinse and repeat method.\n\nNow I cannot say if this is the cause of your problem, but beware products that contain alcohol or lauryl sulphate as they dry out hair and make it brittle.\n\nMost people routinely lose between 70 and 150 hairs from their scalp each day, mainly through washing, brushing, and combing.\n\nScalp hair starts to thin when more hairs are lost through normal shedding than the scalp is able to renew. About 40% of the density of scalp hair has to be lost before thinning of the hair becomes noticeable.\n\nHair loss can be caused by:\n\n    * Heredity. Most balding is caused by a genetic predisposition - in other words, it's part of a person's genetic makeup. This is called male pattern baldness, or hereditary balding or thinning. It is the most common cause of thinning hair.\n\n    * Illness, certain physical conditions, or their treatments. This can include high fever, thyroid disease, childbirth, inadequate protein in the diet, iron deficiency, cancer treatments, the use of certain medications, and other causes.\nFor more see http://www.ehealthmd.com/library/hairloss/HL_whatis.html\n\nSome good alternatives are found here http://www.answerbag.com/c_view.php/1654
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I buzzed my hair real short because I pull it when Im stressed. If the roots are weak they're less likely to get damaged that way too. It's what chema patients too.\n\nPaw palmetto is cheap for the most common kind of hair loss, which is DHT in the scalp.\n\nRogain makes you lose hair with a chance of gaining it back and supposedly keeping it. It's only been seen to work on rare dormant follicals in the back of the head.
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To be honest, chemotherapy is not a cancer treatment.  Here is the situation.  Chemo can take care of the problem right away, but the doctor always says that, some can live an extended 2 years, or 3 years.  And some die right away from the chemicals.  This is with late stages of cancer.  Now, for early stages, it helps the problem but your health is deteriorated. They say that chemo affects the cancer and your normal body cells.  How many people you know, who have had late stages of cancer, and lived through it pass 5 yours with chemo therapy?  I bet you that you have never even heard of it.  Even if someone has, how many people is that compared to that masses?  The problem with other medicines is that the pharmaceautical companies cannot control that product.  What if it was tree bark say for instance.  How many people do you know will buy the pills if they can just walk up to any tree and bite a piece off to save themselves?  See?  So, USA doctors are familiar with these remedies, but they do not talk about it.  Try asking your doctor about green algae, or cesium chloride, or paw paw, etc etc.  Then they start to talk.  Otherwise, they wont say a word.  And if you dont know, how can you ask?  So, the doctors lips are sealed tight.  The individual doctors on the other hand are sometimes scared to talk about it.  It is because, if they open their mouths, they would be facing the whole medical community.  Alot of them go into the medical field to help people, and some go in it for money.  But, the top ranking ones in control are all in it for money.  If not, they would have never gotten their position.  I do not suggest you go with chemo therapy.  You can look up some alternative medicine to cancer and they are all over the place on the net.  The best ranked one is cesium chloride, paw paw, and along with others.  Some health websites even have a place where you can go and tell them your stage of cancer and which type of cancer, and they will sell you a package based on your individual problem.  There are also some doctors scattered all over the USA who specialize in cancer.  You never hear about them right?  Well, they wont be bothered by the medical community if they do a small operation without much advertising.  But, they all report about 90% survival rates on cancers that regular cancer doctors give up on.  And if that doctor didnt give up, do you expect to live anyways?  No.  I speak out to you because I dont want you to die like the two of my friends who have already died.  Certain doctors even said that they could cure it with 80% survival rate.  But, I didnt have the money to help them.  So, I am speaking out in hopes that nothing happens to you and you survive.  Regardless of your stage of cancer.  Cesium chloride is what works best.  Look it up, its everywhere.  Even oxygen drops help.  You can use them both at the same time.  The thing is with these alternatives is that, some of them make you feel extremely bad at the beginning, but after a while you get used to it, and then you are gone with the cancer before you know it.  So dont feel discouraged.  Oxygen drops keep cancer from growing because your body can live with more oxygen.  As a matter of fact, it helps circulate your blood.  Cancer cannot live at the sight of oxygen.  It has been said that not enough oxygen is what causes cancer. I dont know what the cause is, because there are many causes.  But, cesium chloride and oxygen drops will take care of it.  And one more thing, some of these remedies cannot be sold as a cancer treatment.  So, they are sold as vitamins.  But, in their website, they are allowed to say what it cures.  But, their labels cannot say a word about cancer.  So, you should start in the vitamin section of the internet.  Good luck my friend.
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yeah, poor bugger got skin cancer and it spread...\npoor sally :(
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How much time elapsed? What else was going on during this time period? What proof do you have that the cancer spread during this time period? These are some questions to consider. \n\nA delay in treatment in the order of a few weeks to even a month is not out of the ordinary. You say "suspected Stage III", perhaps staging was going on during this time including scans. You need to know what stage the cancer is before you can determine what chemo regimen to use on someone. Also, I don't know how old the patient is, but was the doctor trying to get testing done on the heart and lungs to be sure they were strong enough to take the chemo? All of this info is quite necessary to safely treat someone or else the physician could be found negligent if something bad happened to the patient.
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The gowth rate is concerning. I'm taking for granted he has had either a needle or open biopsy of the nodule. If not he should have one to determine what exactly it is you are dealing with. Speed is of the essence here! Has he had any other exams, such as CT or MRI of the abdomen and pelvis or brain? Once the biopsy is returned those exams may be ordered, don't be suprised if they are! If he has had the biopsy, and it is malignant, ask what options there are for treatment, chemo and radiation or just chemo or just radiation, and if there is metastasis to any other areas?
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Chemotherapy, which is a standard mode of treatment for a number of Cancers, is the primary cause of hairfall in most of the Cancer patients. It is an adverse after-effect of Chemotherapy. Cancer patients don't just go about having a new bald hairstyle just for the heck of it!
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No.  Cancer is a mutation of your body's cells and you can't cause that just by plucking the hairs, no matter how many you pluck.
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You need to ask your oncologist this question. It is possible your cancer treatments are causing or complicating your ED.
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Yes and donate it to the place that make wigs for kid cancer patients. Then grow it back to do it again.
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Yes I do. They tell everyone that when you have skin cancer you will live longer if you get surgery and chemotherapy. I have not found that to be true. My aunt, uncle and a friend all had it and all died not long after getting those treatments. My dad has it too. He refused to get the treatments and is still living this very day and gets around just as good as he did back then. He has had it for 33 years.
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Never heard of that!  Check out http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/ \nfor some answers
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You are right about the chemo and the radiation people are in a lot of pain and suffer from it but I have seen it go both ways Ive seen people go thru it and still die and there last months were just painful and not being able to do any last accomplishments. Then ive seen them go thru it all and live like they never had it. Its bad but anything with the medical profession is a gamble. My husband was diagnosed with cancer in his Liver as soon as they did the biopsy he passed away. I have seen a lot and heard a lot of this happening. They have killed a lot of people with the biopsy needle because they go thru the organ and not in it and it puts the cancer into the body. Good luck in making the right choices.