Chemo with radiation/ Did your hair fall out?

I might as well cut my hair short cuz I'd be losing it....well, I didn't lose any with Cisplatin....and only a little with 5FU....aw, but it gave me the opportunity to see if I liked my hair short...and I do!!   Radiation will take a swath of hair about 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches off the back of your head at the nape....but mine has almost fully come back.  That's the only place I had any real hair loss....Some ofthe guys lost their beards....

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Hi Donna B,

I know, I know... look at my pic and I'm bald ~lol~ I was that way BEFORE chemo and rads. It depends on the chemo drug(s) used but I didn't lose any "other" hair due to Cisplatin. However, the rads stopped my beard from growing which I don't think you have to worry about Some lost a strip of hair on the back of their necks from the radiation. 

Positive thoughts and prayers

"T"

My loved one did not lose much to speak of....just the nape area and he is now 9 months from when treatment ended and it's almost filled back in. He had Carboplatin & Placlitaxel as his Chemo. Dr's told him ahead of time he would most likely not lose his hair from the chemo, he would lose it from the radiation that hit that specific area.

You will do fine and the hair will most likely not be lost.

~C

Hi,

During induction chemo, triple coctail, Taxotere, Cisplatin, and 5FU, I lost all my facial and scalp hair and thinned all the rest from arms, legs, and privvy.  Even the eyebrows got thin but enough there to not get any severe rubbernecking, at least not that i noticed.

It all came back in a few months, except it seems less abundant which may be a case of me just noticing that with 60 around the corner, hair does thin out. LOL

Like Don, and Linda... I too had Cisplatin, Taxotere and 5FU, then Carboplatin as a kicker...

I lost all hair, everywhere, when it came back I swear it was like going through puberty, LOL... My head hair started coming back like a troll doll back in the 60 - 70's... Fine white and straight...

I even lost my toe nails, all of those, and most fingernails were so britlle that when I'd cut them, one clip and the entire end would come off.

Again, like Don, it all came back...

Well, let me clarify, all came back other than the areas hit by rads...

I have about an inch on the nape of my neck that is pretty mucg bare, or fuzzy at best. My beard from the jawline down is pretty much gone, not a problemn there..., now I only have to shave about once a week...

Those old pesky grair, long hairs that grow in all of the places you'd rather them not.... Those suckers were some of the first to come back too...

My advice... it's only hair, more than likely it's going to grow back... If it didn't..., at least you'd be alive to tell your side of the story...

My "nurses" taking care of me.. during my no hair stage,,,.

Best,

John

Is what lost me my hair for the most part, (taxol, cisplatin and 5FU) early May had me faily smooth, but I never lost eyelashes or eyebrows.  It started to grow back in late July, though I did lose a swath around my neck, roughly from the jaw line down.  Makes shaving in the morning easier.  Here it is more than a year later and unless you really know where to look, it is not noticeable.  Some of the hair on the back of my neck has started to come back, but not much to speak of....

My husband's first radiation and chemo (cisplatin) he didn't lose any hair.  Thinner out some but at his age normal.  Second round of radiation and chemo (carboplatin) he did not lose any hair.  Now I know when my sister underwent radiation and chemo for breast cancer, she lost all her hair, so did my Aunt when she undewent radiation and chemo for esophageal cancer.

Sharon

I lost all of mine.  It depends what kind of chemo you have.  Some cause hair loss and some do not.  Ann

Roar said:

only a little in the back

i had citspatin - didnt lose any hair from that - however i did lose some hair from the upper neck area on the back of my head. i also didnt have to shave for a long time. All hair has now returned excpt under my chin where i use to shave

cisplatin and radiation i only lost a small strip on the back of my head, 

when my cancer metastisiesd  Taxotere,   and 5FU took all of my hair and threw me into radiation reall  

CherieLW said:

My dad went through trtmnts

My dad went through trtmnts and his hair did thin quite a bit. He also lost his signature tashe'.

I had rads and cisplatin...after tx completed, I lost 2-3 inches at nap of neck from the rads which has grown back.. The rest did seem to thin a bit. By the time it got to losing hair, it really didn't matter in the scheme of things.