What is a cold cap and do you recommend it to prevent hair loss during chemotherapy?
A cold cap is a device that is placed over the patient’s head during chemotherapy to prevent hair loss. In general it’s not very effective and there has been some question about whether the chemotherapy is being prevented from penetrating the area covered by the cap. There is some recent data, however, to suggest that there may be some benefit to using a cold cap to prevent Alopecia (hair loss) when using Taxol.
