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Chemotherapy And Hair Loss
There can be very few crueler sites that a recently diagnosed
cancer sufferer
The medical profession advocates the use of chemotherapy to treat most forms of cancer. There are over fifty different types of drugs available to be prescribed, some of them in a variety of different combinations. To decide which drug or drugs will be most suitable usually takes time. During this time the doctor or nurse who will accompany the patients during their course of treatment will explain its ramifications and the side effects it will cause. Chemotherapy treatment is applied in
cycles running between three to four weeks, and the strength of the
dose is determined by the extent of cancer spread along with the size
and weight of the cancer sufferer as well as their general state of
health. Between cycles of chemotherapy treatment it is estimated that
the normal and healthy cells in the patient's body recover, but the
cancerous cells have been destroyed by the treatment. It is not a foregone conclusion that patients undergoing
chemotherapy will lose their hair. It depends on the type of drug used
and its strength. The treating nurse will be able to provide this information
to the patient will before treatment begins to allow them to prepare
themselves both practically and emotionally.
The hair loss caused by
chemotherapy is known as Alopecia. The effects of alopecia are exacerbated
by the fact that hair cells are among the most vigorous in the human
body. For that reason chemotherapy will destroy these cells rapidly.
The sudden and dramatic hair loss is therefore especially prominent
in younger men or women with full heads of healthy hair. There are preventative
methods available for those who want to avoid hair loss. Patients can
wear a "cold cap" on their heads to cool the scalp, this is
to prevent blood circulating so rapidly to this region and reaching
the hair follicles. The success rate of this treatment is not encouraging.
Nurses will generally prepare the patients for the inevitably of total
hair loss, and advise them to purchase a wig to match their existing
hair before they lose it. Conventional medicine
continues with the theory that chemotherapy, with all its side effects,
is the only feasible method of treating cancer. Yet holistic medicine
continues to disprove this theory. There are thousands of people who
have been diagnosed with all forms of cancer. They have stood before
the trauma, pain and helplessness that chemotherapy brings. And proved
the conventional theories of cancer treatment to be wrong. They have
avoided the need for chemotherapy treatment by adopting a course of
homeopathic treatment and have cleared the cancerous growths from their
bodies. And retained every hair intact on their bodies will doing so,
Chemotherapy is not the
only alternative for cancer treatment. We only hope that you will never
have to make the choice.
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