Thenewsherald. Keeping a cool head not only helped Laura Carey beat breast cancer, it helped her avoid significant loss of hair during chemotherapy treatments at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute in Brownstown Twp. Carey, 52, of Brownstown Twp., a director for a local company, said she didnt want her coworkers to know that she was undergoing cancer treatment, fearing they'd think it'd prevent her from meeting the demands of her career. She also wanted to avoid the stress of looking in the mirror and seeing her hair disappear on top of all of the other challenges she faced. Carey said when she was diagnosed last July, she was lucky to be diagnosed early, and had a lumpectomy.
Nevertheless, she was treated with a protocol that included both chemotherapy and radiotherapy to eradicate any rogue cancer cells within the body. When she expressed her trepidation about losing her hair, Carey said her surgeon told her about a brand new technology, a continuous cooling cap. Fortunately, Careys that made her a good candidate for the approved by the FDA Paxman cooling cap system which, when worn during chemotherapy, constricts the blood vessels and reduces the flow of chemotherapy to the hair follicles. You plug into a machine, and continues to cool the c on your head, and it freezes the hair follicles on your head so the chemotherapy drugs cannot get to your hair follicles, Carey said.
You've to have it on a half hour before your chemotherapy, and after that a hour and a half after, and the whole time, so it extends your chemotherapy time quite a bit. She said her chemotherapy sessions with the cooling cap would usually run from 9 a. M.she's six treatments, each 3 weeks apart. Carey said she continued to work during her treatment, and she felt others didn't need to know about what was happening to her from a health perspective. People see you with a shawl or hat, people instantly can tell that individual is sick, they've cancer, she said.
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