Cancer Treatment Options Forum - October 12th, 2010 - 5 Comments
Does anyone know if you will loose your hair after one treatment of a chemo embolization for liver cancer?
My Dad has liver cancer, he has been given one chemo emolization and we do not go back to hospital until January when he will have another CT scan. Therefore it is only one treatment he has had and I wondered would his hair fall out > It is three weeks today since he had the chemo ?? thank you
It depends on the type of chemotherapy being used . . but in general chemoembolization does not often ’cause’ hair loss. This is because chemoembolization is a process where chemo is targeted and placed directly into the blood vessels feeding the tumor. This is unlike regular chemotherapy which is systemic and goes through the whole body. Chemoembolization is isolated to the tumor area.
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/vascular/procedures/chemoembolization/
If it has been three weeks than your father will probably keep his hair for this round anyway. . and may never lose it with this type of treatment at all.
No you won’t. It take a month or so.
It will take more than one treatment to loose your hair
I thought that you lose your hair right away…
probable not