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This article reviews central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, focusing on its multifactorial etiology and challenges in clinical diagnosis, and calls for more research and better treatment options.

This review assessed the safety of oral antiandrogen treatments for female androgenetic alopecia, finding spironolactone to be potentially safe even in high-risk populations, but indicated ongoing uncertainty regarding other medications, especially for patients with a history of gynecologic cancers.

In this study, scalp cooling therapy was found to be well tolerated and effective at improving hair preservation for Asian women with breast or gynecological cancers undergoing certain chemotherapy regimens, particularly weekly paclitaxel, compared to historical controls.

New skin lesions on the scrotum or vulva in patients with a history of internal cancer could indicate rare skin metastasis.

This study suggests that hormone replacement therapy and oral contraception may have a protective role in scarring alopecia, as these were reported less frequently by patients with the condition compared to those with female pattern hair loss.