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Chemotherapy And Hair Loss

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One of the detrimental consequences of chemotherapy’s treatment is losing hair. It is the most common effect that caused by cancer treatment. Unfortunately, chemotherapy’s work is to kill cancer cells, but it also destroys healthy cells that helps the hair to grow in the human’s body. When the patient starts the treatment, hair roots will become dryer and thinner. As a negative result, it will start falling seven to ten days when the treatment begins, and after two months, hair loss occurs completely (“Cancer Net”, n.d.). Sometimes therapies cause hair loss only in the head, but it often appears in all the body organs such as, eyebrows, eyelashes, underarms and legs. So It varies from male and female, and from one person to another because

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