Alopecia cancer treatment side effect: from uncomfortable to life-changing

I survived cancer – but drugs left me with permanent alopecia

Shirley Ledlie was left with persistent significant Alopecia following breast cancer treatment with Taxotere drug. Image credit The Telegraph.

Studies show that long term hair loss, which can be caused by a cocktail of certain cancer drugs, has significant impact of quality of survival. Why isn’t more known about it?

Shirley Ledlie long-term Alopecia’s cause – significant and permanent hair loss – was a drug called Taxotere (Docetaxel), which, when combined into a “cocktail” with other chemotherapy drugs, causes “male pattern baldness“…

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The Telegraph, 03 Sep 2015.