Why do people lose their hair when going through chemotherapy?
Why do people lose their hair when going through chemotherapy? My mother is going through chemotherapy and the doctor said that the chemotherapy drugs may or may not cause her to lose her hair. What determines it?Answer: Hair loss is a common side effect of chemotherapy treatment. It generally starts to happen a few weeks after chemotherapy starts. For most people, regrowth begins not long after chemotherapy has ended. Not all people will lose their hair to chemotherapy, however. Cancer cells divide at a high mitotic rate, meaning they divide quickly — much more than most of the cells in our body. Chemotherapy drugs work by targeting these rapidly dividing cells. Some cells in our bodies do rapidly divide, like our hair follicle cells and the cells in the lining of our stomach and digestive tract. Chemotherapy drugs simple canno
