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Cancer treatments targeting specific cells often cause skin, hair, and nail problems, affecting patients' lives and requiring careful management.

Some medications and supplements can cause serious side effects, including hair loss, heart rhythm problems, liver injury, and other health issues.

An 8-year-old girl had nail and hair issues that improved without specific treatment, but fungal nail infection was hard to cure.

Hair loss is a common but often unreported side effect of cancer treatments, especially for breast and prostate cancers.

Hair loss is a common side effect of hormone treatments for cancer.

Hair loss is a common, often overlooked side effect of hormone treatments for breast and prostate cancer.

The document concludes that permanent hair loss conditions are complex, require early specific treatments, and "secondary permanent alopecias" might be a more accurate term than "secondary cicatricial alopecia."

A thorough history and examination are crucial for diagnosing skin diseases, which affect up to a third of people. This includes details about skin lesions, medication, general health, lifestyle, family, and contacts, as well as examining the rash, hair, nails, and mucous membranes. Changes in hair and nails can also indicate other medical and skin disorders.

The conference concluded that understanding hair and nail disorders is important, iron deficiency may be linked to hair loss, and while some treatments for skin conditions are effective, they may have risks and high costs.

Topical minoxidil helps treat hair loss in teens, but more research needed for safe options.

Cyclosporin doesn't stop hair loss.

Some patients with a type of skin lymphoma can experience a rare, non-scarring hair loss that looks like another hair loss condition but has distinct features.

Leech therapy and Ayurvedic treatment can effectively regrow hair in recent Alopecia areata cases.

Some drugs can cause skin and hair color changes, often reversible when the drug is stopped.

Discoid Lupus Erythematosus often causes scarring hair loss, is influenced by genetics and environment, and requires early treatment to prevent worsening.

A 3-year-old boy was diagnosed with a rare, non-scarring hair loss condition called temporal triangular alopecia.

ZD1839, a cancer drug, can cause mild skin rashes that are treatable without stopping the medication.

Low-cost dermoscopes can effectively diagnose early female pattern hair loss.

Grape seed oil improved hair quality the most, followed by rosehip and safflower seed oils, and reduced damage from shampoo.

The document concludes that skin and nail changes can indicate various underlying health conditions.

Skin changes can indicate starvation and nutritional deficiencies in anorexia nervosa.

Terbinafine is more effective than itraconazole for toenail fungus, especially in older patients, and debridement improves its effectiveness.

Some skin problems can be signs of diabetes or other metabolic diseases and recognizing them can help diagnose and treat these diseases early.

Targeted cancer therapies can cause skin side effects, which should be treated early to help patients' quality of life and treatment adherence.

A woman with a rare type of dermatomyositis improved with low-dose prednisone and methotrexate.

Understanding the cause of bitemporal hair loss is key to deciding the right treatment.

Thyroid problems are linked to various skin issues, and checking thyroid health is important for people with certain skin conditions.

Improving oral hygiene and quitting smoking can resolve black hairy tongue.

Color changes in Minoxidil hair products do not affect their effectiveness.

A rare ear-area hair cyst was successfully removed from a 10-year-old boy.