Hair
The main reason cancer patients go bald is the use of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a historically popular cancer treatment and is still used today. These are special droppers that kill cancer cells. But if you dive into it a little, it turns out that they kill not only cancer cells, but in principle all cells that divide rapidly. That is, all the cells of our body that are rapidly renewed: these are the cells of the blood, gastrointestinal tract, scalp and hair. Therefore, chemotherapy, despite its effectiveness, has a lot of side effects and negatively affects the work of blood cells, and the work of the gastrointestinal tract, and hair.
However, not all chemotherapy drugs cause such a reaction, but it is quite common – because drugs that provoke hair loss are often used to treat common types of cancer. For example, breast cancer.
Hair falls out quite quickly, and this, of course, is unpleasant for the patient, so the stereotype has become entrenched in people’s minds. But once once more I emphasize: this does not always happen and depends on the drug. If the doctor knows that the treatment has such a side effect, he will definitely warn the patient.
Almost always, this process is reversible, and a few weeks following the completion of the treatment, the hair begins to grow back. And sometimes it happens that the hair changes its color or structure – that is, the patient may first be blond, and following treatment, he will become a brunette.
