Some commonly-used drugs can cause hair loss
August 1999
Some commonly-used drugs can cause hair loss.
Some drugs are directly toxic to the hair follicle...causing sudden and severe hair loss that starts within several days or weeks.
This is what happens during chemotherapy with bleomycin...cyclophosphamide...doxorubicin...fluorouracil...paclitaxel...and others.
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