Will people who have had alopecia from chemotherapy still have hair re-growth?

Yes, people who have had alopecia from chemotherapy will still have hair re-growth. Alopecia from chemotherapeutic agents (cytoxan, adriamycin and others) is very different from other forms of alopecia. With chemotherapy, the hair follicle cells die and regenerate after chemotherapy stops.

With alopecia areata, the hair follicles no longer receive signals to grow hair. With male pattern baldness, the hair follicle cells are permanently destroyed. Chemotherapeutic agents kill the fast growing hair follicle cells that become your hair shafts.

That is what causes the alopecia. Chemotherapeutic agents are designed to kill all of the fast growing cells in your body. That is why they are effective against fast growing cancer cells.

From caring.com -quote All chemotherapy drugs have the potential to cause at least some hair loss. This happens because the drugs target fast-growing cells, so in addition to killing cancer cells, they can attack the cells in the hair follicles. -endquote Which stage of cancer requires chemotherapy varies widely depending on the type of cancer you have.

Very generally speaking, if you have cancer cells in the lymph nodes nearest your tumor, you will need chemotherapy. Very generally speaking, someone who has a tumor in one part of the body with tumor cells only in nearby lymph nodes has stage two cancer.

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