Should I Expect to Lose My Hair While on Chemotherapy?
By Arturo Ronzon
Your personal image is important, and losing your hair can cause a major loss of your personal image. Being prepared for hair loss during Chemotherapy treatment is the best defense against this image loss.
Hair loss during Chemotherapy is caused by the medication that is used to fight cancer cells growing within your body. Unfortunately the drugs also tend to attack the cells that are in charge of growing your hair, so hair loss occurs from the lack of new hair forming. Not all chemotherapy drugs attack your hair cells, so check with your doctor concerning specific drugs that may keep you from losing your hair.
Hair loss from Chemotherapy occurs with all body hair, not just scalp hair this may include your eyelashes and eyebrows, and all other body hair.
Hair loss usually begins to occur between 10 and 14 days following the beginning of treatment. Between 4 and 6 weeks after treatment finishes, you should begin to re-grow your hair. There may be some differences in the texture or color of your hair, such as new curl or a slight adjustment in color, but your hair will eventually return to what it used to be, it just takes a bit of time. You can expect approximately a
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