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Chef Pankaj Bhadouria’s chemo-driven hair loss: Why it hits women survivors so hard
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The Indian Express
View this post on Instagram A post shared by MasterChef Pankaj Bhadouria (@masterchefpankajbhadouria)//www.instagram.com/embed.jsThe body-image struggle gets serious during cancer treatment.
For women treated for breast cancer, surgery may alter the shape of the breast or leave a scar.
As a result, some chemotherapy drugs can interrupt the normal growth cycle of hair, leading to thinning or significant hair loss.
Hair loss can affect the scalp as well as eyebrows, eyelashes and other body hair.
Psychologically, therefore, hair loss can represent more than the loss of hair.