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Are there any chemotherapeautic medications that will not cause hair loss for bone cancer?
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Chemo & hair loss: The nature of chemo for cancer is to stop division of highly proliferative cells like cancer; however, because the skin, GI tract and bone marrow are also highly proliferative, these areas, which includes hair follicles, also get targeted by chemo. So if a.
Answered 7/3/2015
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