Do you go bald from chemotherapy?

Answer 1

I think it depends on what kinda of cancer you have and how you're being treated for it. Some radiation and chemo therapy can cause you to loose hair but everybodies different.

Cancer doesn't make you lose your hair, but the chemo does. The reason for this is that chemotherapy is the delivery of toxins that kill or damage the fastest growing cells in your body. Malignant cells grow and replicate super quickly, so the chemo is targetted at them, but hair folicles grow fast as well. So -- if the chemo is working -- almost everyone loses their hair at some point in the process.

The good news is that it grows back (and often it grows back curly!).

Answer 2

Chemo affect a cell when it splits (in order to affect the cancer cells which split fast), healthy cells which splits faster than others (hair, nails, skin and other " fast changing/healing/ growing" cells) will be affected as well during the treatment.

Hair growth starts in an area of your hair follicles called your hair matrix. In this area, epithelial cells constantly are dividing to create the fibers of your hair. These epithelial cells are one of the fastest growing cell populations in your entire body.

When chemotherapy drugs (not all have an effect on your hair) enter your system, they cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a healthy body cell. The only thing they recognize is how fast the cell is dividing. Chemo targets any cell in the body that is growing and multiplying at an indreased rate.

As we grow into adults, cells are constantly dividing to help the body grow and develop. Once adulthood is reached, most of these cells become dormant and stop dividing. Some cells, such as the cells that grow and produce hair, continue to grow and divide at an increased rate to replenish natural hair growth.

Answer 3

Some do, but it is not an "everyone/always" situation. One must realize that there any many, many different drugs and protocols that are considered "chemotherapeutic agents." Chemotherapy is a process and it isn't just one drug. There are people that go completely bald, some have hair thinning, and others don't seem to lose any hair at all. It is a very individual process.

Answer 4

No, it does not. There are many different types of chemotherapy medications, some of which do not cause hair loss, and some that have a high probability of causing it.

Even when taking a medication with a high probability of hair loss it may not cause you to lose it at all.

Answer 5

It is not the same for everyone. I have lost my hair twice from chemo and did not loose my eyebrows either time. My friend looses some of the hair in her eyebrows but not all. I have also seen people who have lost all the eyebrow.

Answer 6

I guess you could say that, they shave off your hair. *** Chemotherapy treatments result in the loss of hair as a side effect of the treatment. Depending on the frequancy of the treatments you can lose some or all of your hair.

Answer 7

I dont believe you loose your hair because cancer kills it i believe the tretment you get kills it

Answer 8

Only if you have one of the treatments that causes your hair to fall out such as chemotherapy, the actual cancer itself doesn't make your hair fall out.