Will hair grow back after chemotherapy?!
Question: Will hair grow back after chemotherapy!?
!.!.my wife might be going for the chemotherapy treatment to treat leukemia!. Will the hair that falls off grow back or will she be permanently bald!?Another thing is,please be honest with this!.!.is leukemia treatable and what are the chances!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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The hair always grows back after chemotherapy loss (but not radiation therapy) in my experience of 20 years as a chemotherapy specialist doctor!.
As for the chances of curing her leukemia, we would need to know which type of leukemia!. Her doctors know all of the details of her case - details we do not have!. Please be sure to ask this point blank in a one on one talk with her primary heme/onc doctor!. I had many of these special conferences!. I did not hide truth from patients who wanted to know all of the details, but I tended to be more direct (perhaps even blunt) with the person who would have to carry on if things did not go well!. Each doctor has his or her own approach in these difficult situations!.
For myself, I prefer to prepare for the worst and hope for the best!. The outcome is impossible to know in advance!. All we can do is prepare ourselves as best we can!.
Types of Leukemia:
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- - and there are half a dozen types of AML
' Not trying to be evasive, but the term "leukemia" does not represent one disease!. The term "cancer" refers to a couple of hundred very different diseases!. The type and stage plus many other factors go into a projected prognosis, but even that is merely a guess based on experiential data!. None of the previous people with these disease will be exactly like your wife!. She will write her own history!. She is as special to her doctors as she is to you!. Every one of my patients was special in my eyes - - and I tried to treat each one like a member of my own family!. There are other doctors out there with this attitude - many doctors who truly care and do the absolute best they possible can whether they get paid or not!. (Medical care should not be a business in my opinion!.) We all want a cure for each person!. However, there are unavoidable disappointments!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
As for the chances of curing her leukemia, we would need to know which type of leukemia!. Her doctors know all of the details of her case - details we do not have!. Please be sure to ask this point blank in a one on one talk with her primary heme/onc doctor!. I had many of these special conferences!. I did not hide truth from patients who wanted to know all of the details, but I tended to be more direct (perhaps even blunt) with the person who would have to carry on if things did not go well!. Each doctor has his or her own approach in these difficult situations!.
For myself, I prefer to prepare for the worst and hope for the best!. The outcome is impossible to know in advance!. All we can do is prepare ourselves as best we can!.
Types of Leukemia:
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Hairy Cell Leukemia
Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL)
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)
- - and there are half a dozen types of AML
' Not trying to be evasive, but the term "leukemia" does not represent one disease!. The term "cancer" refers to a couple of hundred very different diseases!. The type and stage plus many other factors go into a projected prognosis, but even that is merely a guess based on experiential data!. None of the previous people with these disease will be exactly like your wife!. She will write her own history!. She is as special to her doctors as she is to you!. Every one of my patients was special in my eyes - - and I tried to treat each one like a member of my own family!. There are other doctors out there with this attitude - many doctors who truly care and do the absolute best they possible can whether they get paid or not!. (Medical care should not be a business in my opinion!.) We all want a cure for each person!. However, there are unavoidable disappointments!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Hair may grow back 2-3 weeks after the last chemo dose (may be longer in some individuals), although do not expect the same quality of hair your wife had before!. Hair whch grows back may be of a different texture and color!. During the first 2 weeks after chemo, a mop of soft fuzz resembling hair, but normal hair may start growing at a faster rate in a month's time!.
As for your last question, the prognosis for leukemia varies, depending on the form!. In general, patients with chronic form of the disease tend to live longer than those with acute forms!. The average survival rate for patients with chronic leukemia is about nine years!. By contrast, only about half of all patients with acute myelogenous leukemia survive five years!. For acute lymphocytic leukemia, the survival rate is even less!.
Please do not lose hope and continue supporting your wife!. Medical progress has greatly improved the prognosis for leukemia over the past thirty years!. Surgeons are becoming much more proficient at bone marrow transplantations!. As a result, more and more patients face the possibility not only of remission but also a cure!.
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As for your last question, the prognosis for leukemia varies, depending on the form!. In general, patients with chronic form of the disease tend to live longer than those with acute forms!. The average survival rate for patients with chronic leukemia is about nine years!. By contrast, only about half of all patients with acute myelogenous leukemia survive five years!. For acute lymphocytic leukemia, the survival rate is even less!.
Please do not lose hope and continue supporting your wife!. Medical progress has greatly improved the prognosis for leukemia over the past thirty years!. Surgeons are becoming much more proficient at bone marrow transplantations!. As a result, more and more patients face the possibility not only of remission but also a cure!.
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Hair usually grows back after the treatments, though it may have changed color!. or be more (or less) curly than it was!. (My hair didn't grow back, but then I didn't have much to start with!)
Any kind of cancer is horrible, but all kinds of cancer are becoming more treatable/manageable every day!.
A patients "chances" depend on the specific case, here is some info that should help you understand what's going on:
http://www!.cancer!.org/docroot/CRI/conten!.!.!.
Best wishes to you & your wife!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Any kind of cancer is horrible, but all kinds of cancer are becoming more treatable/manageable every day!.
A patients "chances" depend on the specific case, here is some info that should help you understand what's going on:
http://www!.cancer!.org/docroot/CRI/conten!.!.!.
Best wishes to you & your wife!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I only know about hair - yes it will almost certainly come back and it might be kind of fun!. Mine came back pretty much the same colour but very curly!. That was an interesting change from my slightly wavy hair pre-chemo!. It was also thicker and it still is!.
Going bald is the pits, but it wasn't as bad as I expected!. Get her some terry cloth turbans to keep her head warm - it's amazing how cold your head can get!. And make sure she wears a hat in the sun - that skin hasn't seen sunshine before!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Going bald is the pits, but it wasn't as bad as I expected!. Get her some terry cloth turbans to keep her head warm - it's amazing how cold your head can get!. And make sure she wears a hat in the sun - that skin hasn't seen sunshine before!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Yes! It will! =) I lost my hair 6 times and it always came back!. It never came back the same colour, but it always came back!.
I did not/do not have any form of leukemia so I cannot remark on prognosis, etc!.
I can say this: I was given zero chance and wasn't even considered a candidate for chemo (but I insisted) and now, after almost 13 years, here I am to tell the tale!.
Never give up!.
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I did not/do not have any form of leukemia so I cannot remark on prognosis, etc!.
I can say this: I was given zero chance and wasn't even considered a candidate for chemo (but I insisted) and now, after almost 13 years, here I am to tell the tale!.
Never give up!.
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yes her hair will grow back!. and leukemia is very treatable these days!.Www@Answer-Health@Com