 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Not entirely true. Medline reports that Cisplatin can cause "brittleness and thinning" of hair. It should recover completely post tx. The radiated area is another matter. It usually kills the follicles outright.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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