In today's column in the Courier News and Home News Tribune, I asked readers to consider making cotton hats for chemotherapy patients, and I said I'd provide some patterns here on the blog. I don't ...

If you have been making chemo caps with me the last few years and you're tired of the standard patterns we've been using, I have good news. Here are links to some patterns I haven't shared with you ...

“Chemotherapy works by targeting fast-growing cancer cells, but unfortunately also impacts other fast-growing cells such as the cells in hair follicles,” says Anne Peled, MD, a breast cancer surgeon ...

The first time Miriam Lipton had breast cancer, her thick locks fell out two weeks after starting chemotherapy. The second time breast cancer struck, Lipton gave her scalp a deep chill and kept much ...

Scalp cooling is a treatment that can help minimize hair loss for people undergoing chemotherapy. Several companies manufacture cold caps, which a person can wear before, during, and after ...

UNDATED (CBS/AP) - Losing her hair was one of the side effects Donna Tookes dreaded most as she prepared to start chemotherapy almost two years ago. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer at ...

Jill Allington was a 35-year-old mother of an almost 2-year-old son when she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. Nursing her son one night, she had an itch on her chest wall. When she ...