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How Can Severe Hair Loss After Chemotherapy Be Treated?
Irecently underwent chemo temozolomide,now have permanent hair loss,I took it for 2months nowvmy cancer is gone doing good but no hair Ijust contacted a lawyer but havent got him yet as hes in court,I just read about the drug and it sounds likr the company was aware because they have all kinds of info on hair loss remedies this really makes me furious because if I had been told I would have asked if I could try others and would have tried them first after having surgery everything was going so good and I felt so good as a last resortrather than die I would have tried this its just the fact that I was uninformed that pisses me off
Mon, 22 Oct 2018
Hi,
Hair loss is an unavoidable complication of chemotherapy. The hair will regrow after completion of chemotherapy.
No definite treatment is required.
You can consider zinc containing multivitamins for better results.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Shinas Hussain,
General & Family Physician
Hair loss is an unavoidable complication of chemotherapy. The hair will regrow after completion of chemotherapy.
No definite treatment is required.
You can consider zinc containing multivitamins for better results.
Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.
Regards,
Dr. Shinas Hussain,
General & Family Physician
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