Just about everyone has been touched by cancer, and during our lifetimes many cancers have become survivable thanks to the hard work of our scientific community. Early diagnosis and aggressive treatment give many cancer patients a fighting chance, but they can also be extremely physically and emotionally taxing. When you talk with someone who is beginning treatment for cancer, you’ll often hear a deep sense of dread, which is completely understandable.But the source of that dread might surprise some people. Often, they are more anxious about the prospect of losing their hair due to the chemotherapy than they are about the cancer itself. The hair loss seems to be symbolic to a lot of cancer patients – stripping them of a source of self-confidence and perhaps signaling how delicate we all are.However, scientists are gaining a greater understanding of how this type of hair loss might be prevented in the future.Researchers from the
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