Losing one's hair because of cancer treatment is an unwelcome side effect patients fear, but now the staff at Exeter Hospital may have a solution to offer - cooling caps. "When a patient is diagnosed, ...

For patients undergoing cancer treatments, certain chemotherapy drugs can cause a big change in appearance. But a therapy originally approved for breast cancer patients can now help people fighting ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the nation’s second cooling cap — Paxman Scalp Cooling System — to reduce hair loss in patients with breast cancer ...

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British scalp cooling expert, PAXMAN is showcasing the latest model of the PAXMAN Scalp Cooling System (PSCS) at Arab Health 2019. The British-developed pioneering treatment prevents Middle Eastern ...

After doctors diagnosed Paula Estrada with breast cancer in 2009, the then 41-year-old Argentine decided she would not only beat the disease, but would do so without losing her long blonde hair to the ...

A cooling cap worn during chemotherapy treatments may help prevent hair loss in breast cancer patients, according to a new study presented Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The cap ...

Chemotherapy often means all of your hair falls out, telling the world you have cancer. The powerful drugs attack both rapidly growing cancer cells but also those in hair follicles, which have some of ...

The design skills and technical innovations of researchers at the University of Huddersfield have led to significant improvements in a silicon cooling cap that aims to reduce hair loss in cancer ...

Scalp cooling has been used in one form or another for the past few years to help some cancer patients preserve hair, but those devices were limited to certain patients with breast cancer only.