The Tejerina Foundation's Breast Pathology Centre is launching a new research project to treat five women suffering from breast cancer. breast cancer to try to avoiding hair loss during chemotherapy treatmentsAna de Lara, an oncologist at the Tejerina Foundation's Breast Pathology Centre, confirms this.

This study is carried out using the Dignicap technique, invented by the Japanese company Sysmex, which consists of cooling the cells of the scalp, preventing the loss of 70% hair by putting on a helmet that keeps the hair at a low temperature while it receives chemotherapy treatments.

This technique is already approved in Europe and has been evaluated, according to the Breast Pathology Centre, in more than 6,000 patients from different countries in Asia, Europe and South America while receiving regular chemotherapy sessions, observing that 83 % of the users did not have to use wigs 6 months after chemotherapy treatment because only 30 percent of their hair had fallen out thanks to this technique.

The reason for hair loss during the treatment to fight cancer This is because the cytostatic drugs administered with chemotherapy treatment are not only used in the treatment of act on cancer cellsbut also on healthy cells.

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