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Why does chemotherapy cause side effects of hair loss and nausea?
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.: Chemotherapy attacks rapidly growing cells, so it attacks the cancer cells as well as normal body cells that grow rapidly, including your hair follicles ! chemo crosses from the blood to the brain and triggers the nausea center in the brain.
Answered 11/8/2013
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