Preventing Hair Loss During Chemotherapy: The Role of Cold Cap Therapy

Preventing Hair Loss During Chemotherapy: The Role of Cold Cap Therapy

June 30, 2026 · 31 min · Season 2 · Episode 43

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The episode discusses the impact of chemotherapy on hair loss and the emotional effects, featuring insights from Dr. Tiffany Pompa.

Your hair can feel like a small thing until cancer treatment threatens to take it away. We sit down with board-certified hematologist-oncologist Dr. Tiffany Pompa to talk honestly about chemotherapy hair loss, why it happens, and why the emotional impact is often underestimated by everyone except the people living it. We also dig into how immunotherapy differs, why hair loss is usually uncommon with many immunotherapy regimens in real practice, and where the published numbers can be confusing...

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