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SPRINGERPLUS
Volume 3, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-500
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Breast cancer; Adjuvant chemotherapy; Scalp cooling; Alopecia
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- Sysmex Europe GmbH, Norderstedt
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Background: Scalp cooling is a long known method to reduce chemotherapy-induced alopecia in cancer patients with solid tumors. Due to a progress in this method, a medical device enabling individual feedback-controlled temperature regulation was evaluated. Between June 2011 and December 2012, 83 breast cancer patients were included. Evaluation was focussed on the quantification of alopecia, satisfaction and side effects of the scalp cooling system in (neo-) adjuvant chemotherapy regimens. Alopecia quantification was done by patient evaluation and experts rating. Findings: Based on patient hair loss evaluations, the mean overall success rate of scalp cooling (< 50% hair loss) in (neo-) adjuvant chemotherapy was at 52.6%. 51.7% of patients in (neo-) adjuvant CT did not need head covers. In 51.7% of patients in (neo-) adjuvant chemotherapy hair regrowth occurred. Patient satisfaction rate was between VAS 70 and 80 (0-100, where 100 is completely satisfied). Conclusion: The evaluation demonstrates that feedback-controlled scalp cooling provides a good chance for breast cancer patients to keep their hair even during (neo-) adjuvant chemotherapies, which are known to cause severe to complete alopecia without scalp cooling.
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