Contents:
- Medical Video: Cooling Cap May Prevent Hair Loss From Chemotherapy
- Chemotherapy:
- Hormone therapy:
- Target therapy:
- Overcoming hair loss
Medical Video: Cooling Cap May Prevent Hair Loss From Chemotherapy
Treatment of breast cancer can affect hair problems such as discoloration or loss. Treatment of breast cancer that can affect hair growth, namely:
Chemotherapy:
- Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin)
- Carboplatin (brand: Paraplatin)
- Cytoxan (chemical name: cyclophosphamide)
- Daunorubicin (brand: Cerubidine, DaunoXome)
- Doxil (chemical name: doxorubicin)
- Ellence (chemical name: epirubicin)
- Gemzar (chemical name: gemcitabine)
- Halaven (chemical name: eribulin)
- Ixempra (chemical name: ixabepilone)
- Methotrexate (brand: Amethopterin, Mexate, Folex)
- Mitomycin (chemical name: mutamycin)
- Mitoxantrone (brand: Novantrone)
- Navelbine (chemical name: vinorelbine)
- Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)
- Taxotere (chemical name: docetaxel)
- Thiotepa (brand: Thioplex)
- Vincristine (brand: Oncovin, Vincasar PES, Vincrex)
Hormone therapy:
- Arimidex (chemical name: anastrozole)
- Tamoxifen
Target therapy:
- Ibrance (chemical name: palbociclib)
- Trip (name chemical: pertuzumab)
Overcoming hair loss
Loss can be stressful and very annoying. Hair will usually begin to grow back 3 to 6 months after completing treatment.
Here are tips to regulate the body in the face of loss and emotional feelings due to hair loss.
- Prepare your loved ones to deal with changes that will occur due to loss problems. Also make sure that they fall back. Using a wig can help you feel much better at covering your hair loss.
- Try to cut the hair short when the hair starts to fall out.
- Be sure to use a sunscreen or hat to protect your head from the sun.
- Keep the temperature on the head when not wearing a wig. Also make sure to wear a warm hat in cold weather.
- Visit a wig specialist before starting chemotherapy. This method can help to get a hairstyle that looks natural
- Look for a salon with a quality wig that can be washed with shampoo so the wig can be reused.
- Consider buying more than one wig for backup when the wig is being washed.
- Be creative with hair accessories so that the appearance can look neat.
- Prepare to receive back hair growth. In some cases, new hair will grow with a different color and texture even though this change is not permanent.
- Consider joining a community that can support and give patients the opportunity to talk about their appearance and manage their new appearance.
- Hats can help women to maintain hair neatness.
Hats can be filled with cold gel so that it helps women to hide their hair while undergoing chemotherapy. This hat is useful for narrowing blood vessels under the skin of the scalp and reducing the amount of chemotherapy drugs that reach the hair follicles. The lack of chemotherapy drugs in the hair can reduce the level of loss.
You can use a hat before, during, and after chemotherapy treatment.
It is important for you to know that some doctors are worried that a hat can prevent chemotherapy drugs from reaching cancer cells on the scalp. Many studies in Europe that have used cold caps since the 1970s and cooling the skin on the scalp do not increase the risk of metastasis. The results of this study were also obtained from studies carried out in Germany in 2013. Unfortunately for now there are no caps that are allowed to be used by cancer patients.
