Normally, I don’t like to repeat myself. But last week, I posted two blogs about the chemo caps that I know some of you haven’t read because you only read my newspaper column, not the blog. So to make ...

Last week, I heard from Adam Blumenthal, director of corporate strategy at Lion Brand Yarn in Carlstadt, up by the Meadowlands arena. Lion Brand is a family owned company, and Adam is in the fifth ...

Essentia Health Cancer Center has partnered with Prairie Yarns to make and collect 50 knitted chemo caps for cancer patients. The "50 Caps in 50 Days" challenge begins April 1 and completed caps will ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - After doctors diagnosed Paula Estrada with breast cancer in 2009, the then 41-year-old Argentine decided she would not only beat the disease, but would do so without losing ...

Hair loss has seemed an unavoidable side effect of chemotherapy. But on Tuesday, two new studies gave hope to breast cancer patients. “How does it feel on your head? It’s cold,” CBS News asked. “Yes.

Chemotherapy drugs are powerful and not particularly discerning. They targets cells that divide quickly. Cancer cells divide quickly. But so do hair cells—that’s why those undergoing chemotherapy wind ...

Hair loss with chemotherapy is a hallmark side effect of the treatment. And until now, most women undergoing chemo had to accept it as part of the unavoidable price to pay for the potentially ...

The first time Miriam Lipton had breast cancer, her thick locks fell out two weeks after starting chemotherapy. The second time breast cancer struck, Lipton gave her scalp a deep chill and kept much ...