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Lotion may stop cancer treatment hair loss.(News)
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Daily Telegraph (London, England)
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January 5, 2001
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SCIENTISTS have developed a lotion that could prevent hair loss caused by chemotherapy.
The compound proved successful in tests on rats, suggesting that it may, one day, relieve cancer patients of a frequent and distressing side-effect of the treatment.
Although baldness caused by chemotherapy is temporary, loss of image is rated among the most difficult side-effects to cope with, after nausea and vomiting.
No effective prevention method exists for this type of hair loss, called chemotherapy-induced alopecia, or CIA. It occurs because many anti-cancer drugs work by killing cells that are rapidly dividing, one of the defining characteristics of cancer cells. ...