One of the most common side effects of chemotherapy is losing your hair, but an experimental treatment might change that. Cold cap therapy, which is currently in trials and not yet approved by the FDA ...

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 ...

Hair loss from chemotherapy can be one of the most distressing side effects of treatment. Now, two new studies show cooling the scalp could stop it.Nearly every week, Chris and Dora Lessard go through ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Amanda Agwuocha, a mother of four young children, was facing breast cancer, chemotherapy and losing her hair. Knowing her cancer would show in this way, or having to hide it with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma — revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep private.

When most people think of cancer and chemotherapy, they also think of hair loss. But patients using a scalp freezing treatment during chemotherapy have been breaking the relationship between chemo and ...

Princess Kate Middleton shocked the world by announcing in 2024 that she was battling an unspecified form of cancer following a noticeable absence from the public eye that had drawn attention from ...

Hair loss with chemotherapy is a hallmark side effect of the treatment. And until now, most women undergoing chemo had to accept it as part of the unavoidable price to pay for the potentially ...