Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy often causes hair loss, otherwise known as alopecia. This is because the cells in the hair follicles grow fast and chemotherapy damages fast growing cells. Hair loss is not permanent and it will grow back once treatment has ended. Not all drugs cause hair loss. Some drugs just cause thinning and others can cause dramatic hair loss, including the body hair and eye brows.

Furthermore, different people have different tolerances to the drugs. Occasionally, some people loose their hair when it is not expected and sometimes, in other cases, no hair loss occurs when it is expected.

Hair loss can start any time after the first few days of chemotherapy to within a few weeks. Hair will grow back once treatment is complete. When it starts to grow it will grow back very fine, like a baby’s hair.