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Science and medical practitioners have been trying to find effective ways how to fight and prevent cancer on all stages.
The big “C,” cancer afflicts many people irregardless of age, nationality and social status. Cancer patients have gone through series of traumas and realizing how much cancer affects them may add up to their depression. Children’s vulnerability is no excuse for cancer attack. Numbers of children with cancer are increasing.
While it’s true that many children are yet to understand the reason of them incurring cancer, hair loss is really a traumatic situation a cancer patient may not want to see. As parents of children with cancer, proper and sensible education is important for them to understand why hair loss is happening. Parents must be tactful in explaining the possible reasons of hair loss to their cancer inflicted child and parents should communicate with the child that the reasons of hair loss is either due to their treatment or another possible reason related to the cancer itself. One reason why hair loss occur for cancer inflicted patients is because of chemotherapy. At this time, chemotherapy is the alternative solution for curing cancer and cancer patient have to undergo series of chemotherapy sessions to prevent and stop cancer cells from growing. However, with the extensive chemotherapy process, the cancer patient’s hair cells are deeply affected although this is a case to case basis. Radiation emitted during the chemotherapy may affect the hair cells resulting to hair loss or thinning of the hair. Most of the time, chemotherapy hair loss may occur if the medication involves the head or when radiation hits the head during the medication process, then most likely, hair cells would be affected. On the other hand, hair grows few months after the chemotherapy sessions. Hence, this is also important to let the children with cancer know that hair loss may be temporary and while undergoing medication, they can use wigs or head coverings for the meantime. However, parents should prepare ahead of time in letting their children with cancer know of what is to be expected before, during and after the chemotherapy session. Not only that but parents should communicate this with their cancer afflicted children but they also need to let the people who are in direct contact with their children like the teachers and the school administrator. During the chemotherapy sessions, your child’s hair loss would take effect after several weeks. It is most possible that after the second chemotherapy sessions, few hair losses would likely be prominent and your child would notice these changes. Take heart and be tactful to stay connected with him or her, telling him or her that this is just a result of the current medication he or she is experiencing. Again provide him or her assurance that his or her hair would grow after the medication process. You can also take a photo of your child for you to use as a basis in choosing the wig your child could use during the medication process. Again, letting your child feel good about him or herself during cancer medication is very important. As parent, this is a fine way to communicate and assure them of what would happen next.
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