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Kester
9 years agoMember
hair return
I had the last chemo on 17th August and I am wonde ring when my hair will start growing back. I never lost it all completely just have a scattering of very fine hair but my scalp is well and truly vis...
chibipink
9 years agoMember
But Pauline, it may be rare when you consider every woman who has had chemotherapy, but when you take just those that have received docetaxal, it is not.
https://www.schmidtandclark.com/wp-content/uploads/Alopecia-FECdoce-Kluger-AnnOnco2012.pdf
http://journals.lww.com/amjdermatopathology/Abstract/2011/06000/Permanent_Alopecia_After_Systemic_Chemotherapy__A.3.aspx
and therefore any patient being offered docetaxal should be warned of this risk beforehand. I for one, would not have taken it if I'd known in advance.
It looks like the lawyers in the US are getting very excited at the prospect of the class actions they are going tomilk undertake. In Europe, apparently, the label for the drug has warned of the possibility of permanent hair loss for a decade, but in Australia, even the Policy Officers of the most important breast cancer advocacy group are denying it.
https://www.schmidtandclark.com/wp-content/uploads/Alopecia-FECdoce-Kluger-AnnOnco2012.pdf
http://journals.lww.com/amjdermatopathology/Abstract/2011/06000/Permanent_Alopecia_After_Systemic_Chemotherapy__A.3.aspx
and therefore any patient being offered docetaxal should be warned of this risk beforehand. I for one, would not have taken it if I'd known in advance.
It looks like the lawyers in the US are getting very excited at the prospect of the class actions they are going to