Balding Blog
11-20-2008, 12:31 PM
Snippet from the article:
Medical science has made great strides recently in developing successful cancer treatments. But there hasn’t been a lot of progress in dealing with one of the most distressing side effects of cancer therapy – hair loss.
A clinical study is underway on a system that just may help patients keep their hair as they fight for their lives.
Read the full text — Cold Cap Therapy (http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/health/story.aspx?content_id=e4c86544-5153-4b74-8d16-cb28e02fabff)
I read this with interest, but I have no knowledge of it first hand. The article does say that the “cold” in “cold cap therapy” means that they are stored at -22 degrees Fahrenheit, which I’d imagine could be quite uncomfortable. There’s one quote in the text that was a little alarming to me, unless I’m just reading into it too much. The inventor of the therapy, a British scientist, said, “I’ve got husbands calling me saying thank you because their wives who have hair down to here are saying I won’t do chemo, I’d rather die than lose my hair.”
They’d rather die? Hopefully that’s just a figure of speech…
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Medical science has made great strides recently in developing successful cancer treatments. But there hasn’t been a lot of progress in dealing with one of the most distressing side effects of cancer therapy – hair loss.
A clinical study is underway on a system that just may help patients keep their hair as they fight for their lives.
Read the full text — Cold Cap Therapy (http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/health/story.aspx?content_id=e4c86544-5153-4b74-8d16-cb28e02fabff)
I read this with interest, but I have no knowledge of it first hand. The article does say that the “cold” in “cold cap therapy” means that they are stored at -22 degrees Fahrenheit, which I’d imagine could be quite uncomfortable. There’s one quote in the text that was a little alarming to me, unless I’m just reading into it too much. The inventor of the therapy, a British scientist, said, “I’ve got husbands calling me saying thank you because their wives who have hair down to here are saying I won’t do chemo, I’d rather die than lose my hair.”
They’d rather die? Hopefully that’s just a figure of speech…
Tags: hairloss (http://technorati.com/tag/hairloss), hair loss (http://technorati.com/tag/hair+loss), chemotherapy (http://technorati.com/tag/chemotherapy), chemo (http://technorati.com/tag/chemo), cancer (http://technorati.com/tag/cancer), cold cap therapy (http://technorati.com/tag/cold+cap+therapy), cold cap (http://technorati.com/tag/cold+cap)
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