Is it true that radiation can make your hair fall off?
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Yes
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yes
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Yes it can and Chemo treatments can also make your hair fall out!
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Yes radiation treatment and some forms of chemotherapy do cause hairloss in some people. Not everyone by a long way. My husband never lost his hair and very few of the people in our Oncology unit had severe hair loss. Once the treatment stops the hair grows back.
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I just saw a movie today about Chemo on IFC today, it was rather fascinating to watch.
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I think it does some people and others it doesn't.
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Yeah ...that's what i've heard :-)
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I know chemo can.
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I think it can.
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Hair is mostly made out of protein ( called keratin). Radiation releases high-energy, charged particles (alpha and beta) and also photons (Just energy). When these sources of radiation enter the body form a outside source, they replace nonradioactive elements and remain there emitting ionizing radiation. (High energy radiation). As mentioned before, Hair is a protein, made up of amino acids, When radiation enters the body, it combines with the acid and replaces one of it's molecules atoms with a charged particle. -For example when radiation enters the body, it combines with water (H20) to form highly reactive H20+ Ions which lost en electron due to the radiation. That same H2O ion goes on to reacting with other H2O molecules (Our body is about 70% water, their is a lot of them!!!) - H20+ + H20 --> H3O+ + OH- The Oh- is a free radical and can cause cancer. But for this question, the H20 became H30. They are completely diffrent. -Hair loss follows the same format, just different equation.
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Technically i think it falls out not off...
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