Can Cold Caps Prevent Chemo Hair Loss?
Yes, they can, sometimes significantly, though how well they work varies a lot depending on which drugs are involved and the individual patient. Cold caps work by cooling the scalp during chemotherapy infusion, which narrows blood vessels there and reduces how much of...
Does Cancer Increase Blood Clot Risk?
Yes, cancer raises the risk of a dangerous blood clot, a venous thromboembolism, meaning deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, by roughly four to seven times compared to someone without cancer. So why does a disease that has nothing to do with the blood vessels...
Why Do Cancer Drugs Stop Working Over Time?
Cancer drugs stop working over time because cancer cells adapt, mutate, and find new ways to survive treatment, a process doctors call acquired resistance. This happens with standard chemotherapy too, but it plays out somewhat differently with targeted therapy and...
What Are the Long-Term Side Effects of Radiotherapy?
Long-term side effects of radiotherapy, doctors usually call them late effects, can show up months or even years after treatment actually ends, and they generally involve permanent scarring, tightening, or lasting damage to healthy tissue that sat inside the treatment...