Should doctors increase efforts to inform women with breast cancer about the potential hair loss after chemotherapy?
When Lynda Horn, a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with breast cancer, discovered that she would undergo chemotherapy treatment, she was most concerned about the looming mastectomy and how it would alter her appearance. She brushed off the idea of hair loss, expecting her hair to eventually grow back. However, after her first treatment, Lynda’s blonde bob …