I don't have the slightest idea. There
is probably a very simple explanation for this that I am
looking over.
I think it is because they are trying
to kill all of the bad cells and hair is only dead cells that
have come together, so it just sees hair as bad cells and
gets rid of it.
Causes your the cells in your hair to
age rapidly???
I think that the chemicals, or
whatever it is that kills the cancer, just happens to affect
hair cells, causing them to die and having the hair fall out.
They have to kill
many cells off just to terminate the cancerous cells. Thus,
they cause other cells such as hair cells and sperm to weaken
leading to fallout.
I think chemo kills
the cells in our roots of our hair.
I'm not sure-I must have skipped over
this in the notes or readings. Possibly though chemo slows
down cell growth and that's why hair (which quickly replaces
itself) stops growing and falls out until the end of
treatment.
Chemotherapy drugs probably affect a
persons hair to fall out because when trying to kill off the
cancer cells there is also an affect on other cell as well.
And one of the main cells that are affected is the hair cells
which causes the hair to fall out.
Ok, I was able to
find an answer to this one : ) Traditional cancer chemotherapy
poisons all body cells to some extent, but particularly
targets rapidly dividing cells such as cancer cells. Its
effect on other rapidly dividing cells (hair follicles, cells
lining the stomach, and red blood cells) accounts for some of
the common side effects.
It stops mitosis all together, which
causes the cancer to stop growing and to try to kill it, but
also kills your hair follicles in the process.
Chemotherapy kills both cancer and
healthy cell. The healthy cells that are at risk are the ones
that grow at a faster rate. Hair cells grow rapidly and can
be killed by the chemo.
