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2. How an icy therapy helped SLO breast cancer survivor ... - AOL

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   Cold caps or scalp cooling systems are tight-fitting hats that cancer patients can wear during chemotherapy infusions to reduce the effects of hair loss from the treatment. Chemotherapy is ...

3. EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Fischer opens up about new short hair and ...

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   She underwent surgery and 12 rounds of chemotherapy, plus radiation, and is now cancer free. Fischer wore her hair short in her interview with Hoda, who is a breast cancer survivor herself. The ...

4. Jill Martin details treatment that saved 70% of her hair ...

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   After being diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer earlier this year, TODAY contributor Jill Martin Brooks is getting honest and real about her chemotherapy journey.. She joined TODAY on Oct. 4 ...

5. Hypothermia cap - Wikipedia

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   Hypothermia caps appear useful to prevent hair loss during some kinds of chemotherapy, specifically when taxanes or anthracyclines are used. [6] It should not be used when cancer is present in the skin of the scalp or in people with lymphoma or leukemia. [7] There are generally only minor side effects from treatment. [8]

6. Mark B. Barron - Wikipedia

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   Barron is who invented and patented the Chemo Cap, a therapeutic hypothermic device, in 1979. [2] [3] The Chemo Cap was designed to prevent alopecia from chemotherapy treatment by freezing the scalp and decreasing blood flow to areas of hair growth during administration of the drug.

7. Breast cancer - Wikipedia

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   Many breast cancer therapies have side effects that can be alleviated with appropriate supportive care. Chemotherapy causes hair loss, nausea, and vomiting in nearly everyone who receives it. Antiemetic drugs can alleviate nausea and vomiting; cooling the scalp with a cold cap during chemotherapy treatments may reduce hair loss. [63]