A Massachusetts mother who is battling cancer is pushing health insurance companies to cover a treatment that is often overlooked.

Hair loss from chemotherapy can be one of the most distressing side effects of treatment. Now, two new studies show cooling the scalp could stop it.Nearly every week, Chris and Dora Lessard go through ...

When Amanda Butler was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 32, the prospect of chemotherapy was daunting. “That was the last thing I wanted to do. I was like I don’t want to lose my hair,” Butler ...

WASHINGTON — Hair loss is one of chemotherapy's most despised side effects, not because of vanity but because it fuels stigma — revealing to the world an illness that many would rather keep private.

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Hair loss is one of the most despised side effects of chemotherapy, and now breast cancer patients are getting a new way to try to save their locks. The Food and Drug Administration said ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Amanda Agwuocha, a mother of four young children, was facing breast cancer, chemotherapy and losing her hair. Knowing her cancer would show in this way, or having to hide it with a ...

Jen Tassi felt like a bobblehead as her oncologist explained her breast cancer diagnosis, the various drugs that would make up her chemotherapy treatments and how and when they’d be delivered. The ...