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They have a new product available that allows
chemotherapy patients to keep their hair.
It's a cap that has to be rented, must be
replaced after 30 minutes, but allows
the cancer patient to keep his/her hair.
So the next time some clown suggests you donate
your hair, you can turn around and suggest they
doante money so that the cancer patients can
get these "caps" to use.
Isnt that great? This is a welcome releif for all cancer patients.
The rate at which science is improving is amazing. Very soon, i hope they come up with some easy cure for cancer. Having had 3 people in my family suffer from cancer and losing 2 of them, it is really great to see science coming up with something good.
Cheers!
Kumar
These websites (and others like them) will probably be interesting to you. I found the story fascinating and am following its advice.
http://www.vitaminb17.org/
http://www.laetrile.com.au/
"Cancer" is not a single disease, but a vast group of diseases resulting in unwanted tissue growth. Therefore, no single cure for cancer is to be expected any time soon.
I'd stick to some of the regular vitamins. I'd avoid abricot kernels since they contain amygdalin, but eating the flesh of abricots and other kinds of fresh fruit is a great way to both reduce the likelihood of cancer AND to improve hair growth.
Best wishes
Hans-Uwe
I am very skeptical of this "claim"...chemotherapy is systemic and each treatment works slowly. I doubt that leaving on this "cap" for 35 minutes is going to change the side effects of chemotherapy. In the article there is a statement that it may not work for all...which releases them from any wholesale claim...I would like to put this product on my shelf next to my bottle of snake oil!
That's great,.. if it works. I had chemotherapy to treat lupus and at only 1/3 the dosage of what someone with cancer would probably receive,I lost alot of my hair. Plus the lupus was causing my hair to shed. I remember the stares at work. I went from shoulder length curly hair to patchy bald spots, short, frizzled hair, had get the hair cut so grow back evenly. If I had to do chemo again. I'd give the cap a try, (hope I don't)
This does sound to good to be true. If it does what they say it does my hair would be a lot longer than it is now. I had Chemotherapy back in early 2004; I had 4 months of it. I got my haircut (my hair was down to my collar) before treatment started, so it would not have been to noticeable during treatment, this cap would have helped. I am glad I lost my hair during treatment I think it has grown back a lot healthier now.
Well, I was going to comment that this wouldn't work and then describe why. Then I read the article, and it actually seems reasonable to me.
Here's the thing. The way chemotherapy works is that the drugs attack any cells that are multiplying rapidly. For adults, that usually just means cancer and hair. To avoid the hair loss, what you need to do is to make it dormant. It seems to me the technique should work if the hair can remain dormant for long enough. Remove the cap while the chemicals are still in high enough concentration, and the hair will be attacked anyway. Presumably, by this time, the chemicals have attacked something else and are no longer available. So I bet the technique works only with careful dosing (too much of the drug and it will still be available to kill the hair when it thaws).
These hair donation companies solicit hair not for cancer patients, who will grow their hair back anyway after therapy, but for those with irreversible hair loss.
This sounds like a great idea under ideal conditions. Remember that certain chemotherapeutic agents are longer acting and the cap might not work for that.
Also, I went to the website and the cost is $600-800 per month, which is a huge cost for patient to absorb. Keep in mind that there are often large copayments for physician visits, medications, chemo, radiation and hospital admissions.
All I'm saying is that the cap might not be an option for everyone and in those cases wigs can help the self-esteem quite a bit.
ToddB
Why so expensive? Shouldn't they be reusable - just put them back in the fridge after they warm up. I guess I'm missing something.
After the therapy, they (and all the support equipment) wouldn't be needed anymore, so there should be a good resale market.
Maybe the laws force them to be trashed after use?
I would point out when a patient is in a nursing home
and dies all medication must be thrown out even though
it is sealed in medication "cards"
In San Francisco they are not advocating this anymore, at least not concerning AIDS medications, I read. The article said there are groups who collect unused pills and send them to Africa, because people are dying there who can't afford the pills.
They also are now saying NOT to flush unused pills down the toilet, which is what they used to advocate. They dissolve and end up in the aquifer to contaminate drinking water. No one wants to be getting doses of other people's medicines when taking a drink of water.
Bill
All i'm saying is the next time some clown suggests a long
hair donate his hair to locks of love the long hair can turn
around and suggest they donate their money so cancer patients
can get these caps.
As others have pointed out LOL needs money more than hair,
that much of the hair they get is thrown out.
I read an article on these 5 years or so ago where they were being described as being 'in development' so it's not something really new. I hope they work and the price will fall in time.
