Do cancer medication cause hair loss?
And if so can anyone tell me what medications do besides chemotherapy?
Since cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells, chemo targets or attacks fast growing/dividing cells. Hair cells divide fast and are fast growing, and so are sperm cells, which is why chemo can make your hair fall out and render you sterile for a while.
I can’t tell you any other cancer medications off the top of my head, but I’d imagine that the same principle would apply. Cancer medications would probably be intended to slow down or halt the rapid, uncontrolled cell growth, and hair loss would be a probable side effect.
Chemotherapy does cause hair loss. You just have to wait for it to grow again.
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Since cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells, chemo targets or attacks fast growing/dividing cells. Hair cells divide fast and are fast growing, and so are sperm cells, which is why chemo can make your hair fall out and render you sterile for a while.
I can’t tell you any other cancer medications off the top of my head, but I’d imagine that the same principle would apply. Cancer medications would probably be intended to slow down or halt the rapid, uncontrolled cell growth, and hair loss would be a probable side effect.
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Radio therapy can cause nausea chemotheraphy can cause hair loss but it grows again just a thick as beforeTake care
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chemo yes. various creams for treatment of skin cancer , for the scalp will cause loss of hair in treatment area, burns like heck . found it easier to go bald . once treatment works, treated , area will grow back very thin . stayed bald . chemo is the only bald treatment for everybody
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Many types of Chemotherapy can cause hair loss. The reason for patient’s loss of hair is that chemotherapy can kill healthy cell in the process of killing cancerous cells.
Hair loss due to radiation treatment will only occur within the radiation field. Scalp hair will only be affected if the head receives radiation.
Anti-inflammatories that are also used as a chemotherapy drug that induce hair loss are
Methotrexate (MTX)
Rheumatrex (methotrexate)
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some do
some make you skinny some make you fat
some make you vomit alot there are a few treatments that don’t make you sick or loose your hair though
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