Since cancer has been spreading fast and engulfing both sexes and all age-groups, the world has launched a hectic search not only for remedies but also drugs and accessories to blunt its painful side effects. One of them is the hair loss for mainly the lady patients. Breast cancer is the commonest form in the ladies. If it is detected early, only either the radio therapy or the chemotherapy may be advised to cure the patient. In the eventuality of late detection, the patient has to undergo triple course of operation followed by RT and CT. Whenever CT is prescribed, the hairfall starts immediately after the first dose and she becomes a complete bald by the third application each being after a gap of 21 days. CT in case of 2nd or 3rd stages is generally given in half a dozen sittings with the approved gap.
The weakness of ladies for long, thick, black and shining hair is known to all so much so that it is not considered less than any ornaments in matters of make up. Therefore, for bald ladies it becomes a very trying situation to move out. Anybody in market will be surprised to see a young and beautiful lady bereft of hairs on head. Since more and more patients are seen these days, you will find them covering the head with scarf. Despite that the inferiority complex in them is visible.
In this backdrop, some caps have been brought in the market in England and USA. The first such cap is known as Penguin Cap. It is like an icebag. It has to be kept on freezing point. Immediately after the CT sitting, the patient puts it on. So that the treatment could be effective, it has to be changed after every half an hour for two hours. It keeps the scalp so cool that the heat effects of CT is compromised and the patient is saved of unwanted hair-loss. It has to be more than one. So the entire package for one patient costs about 600 dollars. The second cap is known as DigniCap. Unlike its first counterpart, it has an inbuilt machine working as a coolant. It is slightly cheaper. The patients are presently not benefiting on a larger scale as it has not received necessary clearance from the monitoring authorities and hence it is not commonly available in market.
The treatment, therefore involving CT requires some more improvement besides safety from baldness. Firstly, being the costliest part of the post-operation treatment, the medicines forming its package has to be made cheaper and secondly less painful. CT spoils the taste in the mouth of the patients so badly that they lose appetite which makes them weak. The post-operation patient’s body becomes delicate and very prone to infection. Since, till now only risk factors are known and exact cause has not been detected, the medical community has to take this challenge of making cancer treatment cheaper and less painful.
The weakness of ladies for long, thick, black and shining hair is known to all so much so that it is not considered less than any ornaments in matters of make up. Therefore, for bald ladies it becomes a very trying situation to move out. Anybody in market will be surprised to see a young and beautiful lady bereft of hairs on head. Since more and more patients are seen these days, you will find them covering the head with scarf. Despite that the inferiority complex in them is visible.
In this backdrop, some caps have been brought in the market in England and USA. The first such cap is known as Penguin Cap. It is like an icebag. It has to be kept on freezing point. Immediately after the CT sitting, the patient puts it on. So that the treatment could be effective, it has to be changed after every half an hour for two hours. It keeps the scalp so cool that the heat effects of CT is compromised and the patient is saved of unwanted hair-loss. It has to be more than one. So the entire package for one patient costs about 600 dollars. The second cap is known as DigniCap. Unlike its first counterpart, it has an inbuilt machine working as a coolant. It is slightly cheaper. The patients are presently not benefiting on a larger scale as it has not received necessary clearance from the monitoring authorities and hence it is not commonly available in market.
The treatment, therefore involving CT requires some more improvement besides safety from baldness. Firstly, being the costliest part of the post-operation treatment, the medicines forming its package has to be made cheaper and secondly less painful. CT spoils the taste in the mouth of the patients so badly that they lose appetite which makes them weak. The post-operation patient’s body becomes delicate and very prone to infection. Since, till now only risk factors are known and exact cause has not been detected, the medical community has to take this challenge of making cancer treatment cheaper and less painful.
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