One of the most common side effects of chemotherapy is losing your hair, but an experimental treatment might change that. Cold cap therapy, which is currently in trials and not yet approved by the FDA ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Amanda Agwuocha, a mother of four young children, was facing breast cancer, chemotherapy and losing her hair. Knowing her cancer would show in this way, or having to hide it with a ...

WASHINGTON -- Hair loss is one of the most despised side effects of chemotherapy, and now breast cancer patients are getting a new way to try to save their locks. The Food and Drug Administration said ...

Treating cancer with chemotherapy has long been associated with imminent hair loss, but perhaps no longer. Women’s health expert Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones says "scalp cooling" techniques have been found ...

For many women, the most traumatic aspect of chemotherapy treatment for cancer is the prospect of losing their hair. “Waking up to a pillow covered with hair is the first outward sign that they really ...

I got one of those calls a few weeks ago. As the assistant to a friend who runs a private school, Suzan and I had met briefly in the past, but this time we were brought together by her news: breast ...

Hair loss is one of the most visible and demoralizing aspects of breast cancer that's commonly associated with chemotherapy. But thanks to a new device called the DigniCap Scalp Cooling System, which ...

Hair loss with chemotherapy is a hallmark side effect of the treatment. And until now, most women undergoing chemo had to accept it as part of the unavoidable price to pay for the potentially ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Back in the big-hair ’80s, my Auntie Mack had a thick, lush blonde bouffe. Then she got cancer. Chemo ruined her prized mane, leaving her ...

GONZALES, La. (WAFB) - There’s a new cap in town, but it’s not the kind you wear on a night out; it’s actually helping people through tough times. Wendy Fruge’s routine is simple. She leads an ...

Scalp cooling caps can help breast cancer patients save their hair from the ravages of chemotherapy, a pair of new studies suggests. More than half of women fitted with cooling caps kept their hair ...