No Prevention of Radiotherapy-Induced Alopecia by Scalp Cooling

    September 2015 in “ Radiotherapy and oncology ”
    Corina van den Hurk, Felix de Beer, Wim Dries … M.J.C. van der Sangen
    Studysummary This article discusses the potential for scalp cooling to prevent hair loss during radiotherapy, drawing from its efficacy in chemotherapy contexts, but it provides no new experimental results.
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