Breast cancer?

552>i have found out my nana has breast cancer and there are some questions i need to ask but i can't ask her.1.what does chemotherapary actually do to help the cancer go away and why do all people who have cancer loose their hair thankyou xx
Reply:chemotherapy works by killing fast growing cells, which cancer cells are.


Hair is also made of fast growing cells, but the chemo cannot discriminate between the good and the bad , so the hair wont grow again until the chemo ends.


Not everyone on chemo will lose their hair. I didnt.


I have wavy hair, it went straight.


When the chemo ended it went curly.


Im not sure why it didnt fall out. May have been the type of chemo drugs they gave me.
Reply:Chemotherapy is a powerful substance that kills scancer cells. Unfortunately it aslo kills other living cells in the body too. That is why your hair falls out. I have heard some people suffer from mouth sores and nausea, but that didn't happen to me. I had very few side effects, apart from the hair, which grows back quickly enough, and usually curly. My big toe nails also fell off, which is rare. They have made so many advances in the treatment of cancer today, that the side effects of the chemo are minimal. I wish her good luck.
Reply:Breast cancer is when your own cells mutate and grow until a lump forms. They keep on growing and multiplying until all of them are removed and/or until they are stopped.


Chemotherapy stops the body from reproducing %26amp; forming any 'new' cells. It does this by interfering with the body's chemical processes that happen when cells multiply. This is why sometimes hair falls out, because the chemotherapy stops the hair follicle from multiplying too. As soon as she stops the chemo, her hair will start growing back, it may not fall out at all.


Hope she is better soon x
Reply:My mom is a survivor of bilateral breast cancer and I found all my answers to my questions at the site below. Good Luck and I'll be thing about you and your Nana.
Reply:The chemotherapy works by killing rapidly producing cells, as cancer cells are rapidly producing cells.





This is why hair drops out with most chemo drugs as the cells which make the hair are rapidly producing cells. This is why a lot of people get nausea and vomiting and diarhorrea as the gut is also made of rapidly producing cells, and sore mouth is also another (mucositis).





There are a number of other side effects, including low white and red blood cell counts. Side effects of chemo usually start about 7 - 10 days after each treatment.





Im sure your nan wont mind you asking her about what is going on. From my experience, cancer patients appreciate people not treating them like china and pussyfooting around them. They like a bit of honesty and people to continue to communicate normally to them.





All the best x
Reply:Sorry to hear of your nan's breast cancer. All people do not lose their hair with chemo. and you can put a hat on during and after the sessions which reduces the risk considerably. The chemicals in chemotherapy actually target the cancer cells and zaps them. Why not try Cancer U.K.s web-site for more details. It helped my wife and I considerably.
Reply:Hi





The chemo kills anything what is growing in your body, so thats why i lost my hair on the 14th day after my frist chemo session, it started coming out. You also loose your body hair so didnt have to shave my legs for 6 months HEAVEN..lol





The side effects are horrible, nausea, tiredness,mouth ulcers,pains in your joints, hand and foot syndrome ( skin starts to flake off and you nails start to turn black).





My chemo sessions were every 3 weeks, u had to have a blood test first to make sure you were fit to have another session. I had to keep away from sick people as last thing i wanted was to catch a cold as you inmune system is on a low and if you did get ill you couldnt have you next chemo session and have to wait till you were better even end up in hospital.





I was on the Tact2trials, where i got chemo but it was more aggresive form, they are always finding new drugs to help this condition.





Ps my hair is returning now and have over an inch and a half of hair now, oh also you are most likely to get curly hair, as the hair follicles get squashed trying to get out and then they stop in between you chemo sessions but i had curly hair to start with.





hope this helps
Reply:I am seriously no expert in this and i only want to help! Because I was born with a brain tumor I've been reading lots of things about health all my life and i will still continue! I have read that one of the main causes of BREAST CANCER is wearing a BRA!!!





The way it explains it is that when girls start to grow up and so does their breast and the very first error that they run into is to teach their body to rely on a BRA! And that's very bad because you have to understand that the human body has over 300 muscles not just the most common areas the arms, legs,abdominal and so forth!!!





You have to understand million years ago there was no BRAS so as the breast grows up little by little the body immediately builds breast muscles to learn to support the breast area by itself!





It makes perfect sense why when my WIFE tells me that her breast feels quite heavy when she doesn't wear a bra for over 10 minutes when she is trying to dress up !!! And I asked her how could that be it's not like the breast just showed up you've been growing with it all your life!!!





And then it finally came to me how else could breast cancer really seriously exist! I am certainly not saying that's the direct reason BUT IT HAS TO HAVE A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF REASON! We fought for weeks and weeks until I changed her mind not to wear BRAS anymore and 3 months later she can't feel her breast at all because she has the CHEST MUSCLES to support her BREAST!





AND NOW SHE IS NOT ALLOWING OUR DAUGHTER TO EVEN CONSIDER WEARING A BRA ANYTIME SOON ESPECIALLY SINCE HEAR BREAST HASN'T EVEN BEGUN GROWING YET AND SHE WILL NOT ALLOW HER TO WEAR A BRA AT ALL UNTIL SHE GROWS UP AND NO LONGER LIVES UNDER OUR ROOF "THOSE WERE HER WORDS"





and she is even trying to change the mind of most of her girlfriends!!! I seriously hope i helped at least a little bit!

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