My sister in law had extensive chemo and radiation, cancer cells were detected in her brain few days ago, she is going to receive more radiation directly in her head, doctor told her that she’s going to loose her hair permanently.
Doctor I’m wondering if you could harvest some hair follicles for cloning and then when she’s well you could transplant those follicles back in her scalp. Can you respond quickly, since she’s started the new radiation today.
Thank you
There has been considerable research on taking hair follicles, freezing them and trying to ‘wake them up’ for reimplanting later. Failure is very high and after a few weeks, there is virtually a 100% failure rate. It appears that freezing them with the various techniques available will kill the hair follicles.
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