May 5 2005, 8:40 am PT | Posted in: Hair Loss Causes
I had a brain tumor when I was a child. I was cured but the radiation I received left me missing much of my hair on my left side. Can hair transplants help?
Yes, hair transplants will grow nicely in radiated scalp skin most of the time. I recently had such a patient come in after about a year from his transplant session with us (post radiation from a childhood treatment of a malignant brain cancer). He was Korean with black straight hair, olive complexion skin and one side of his frontal area almost completely hairless. His results with about 1500 grafts was wonderful and that included his hairline. He may elect to do another session, but frankly the results were outstanding and I did not think that he would push for another session. Clearly, he was happy and his hair ‘greed’ was taking over. Hair transplants work well for many scars and scalp conditions beyond simple genetic balding.
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I am still unsatisfied bec. I’not able to afford LT hair, had beautiful hair (hairdresser) during college. Now I am destroyed and not able to function due to baldness, and tinnitus. Had LT relationship had to leave, no social life or friends like before. Thank you for pulbishing My Blog. All I want is to find similiar people and I can not. There are no other women w.this condition that will admlit it. Went to wrong place for radiation. In Boston, I was told there are many technologies I could get, but instead I was driven by CancerSociety to a facility that did not have any other technoligy besides WBR. It made me sad that I didn’t even know. Thank you
Apparently I was sent to a place that “did not have the technology I was told in Boston. Thank you
I give up - this is my third time. It’s me.
i just finish radiation on the brain and a day after my last treatment my hair starting sheddin. how long will it be before it stop shedding or coming out