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Not Hair Loss News – Duration of Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy Questioned

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For some men with prostate cancer, hormonal therapy to beat the disease could be safely cut from three years to half that time, a new clinical trial suggests.

When men have cancer that is confined to the prostate gland but at high risk of worsening, one treatment option is radiation therapy plus drugs that cut testosterone levels, because this male hormone feeds the cancer.

Right now, doctors routinely give that hormonal therapy for two to three years, during which time men may suffer unpleasant side effects.

But that routine is based on a clinical trial from the 1990s that found that adding three years of hormonal therapy to radiation could cure certain prostate cancers. That doesn’t necessarily mean three years is ideal.

Read the rest — Could Duration of Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy Be Halved?

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Can You Place Grafts Between Growing Full Hairs?

Dear Doctor Rassman,
I have very full hair on my head, pretty long, but the forehead starts getting lighter. Also in between I do not like that it starts shining through and becomes thinner. Is there a chance even to put grafts in between of the growing full hair just to make the appearance even fuller? Also I would like to think about working on the receding hairline.

I appreciate your coming back to me and remain with kindest regards

It is hard to answer your question, because I do not know what you are seeing. If you get your hair mapped out for miniaturization we might know what it is that you are seeing. Is this the early stages of thinning genetic hair loss? Without quantifying the miniaturization, I can not help you.

Generally, placing transplanted hair next to healthy hair does little damage, but it is possible that you could damage any hairs that are miniaturizing. Most people do not ask for more thickness if they have their normal hair with its full bulk present, so I am going to assume that you are miniaturizing in the area you want to thicken up, which would change my answer to your question as yes, your miniaturized hair can be permanently damaged from a transplant that is done without regard to a proper Master Plan for your hair loss.

We commonly see hair transplants done in “normal” hair areas. This occurs when a doctor ‘sells’ a transplant to make money and places transplants on the entire head when only a part of the head is bald. Unfortunately, I see this done too often, even in Los Angeles. The other day, I had a patient come to see me who maybe needed 800 grafts, but he was sold over 3000 grafts at another clinic, which was transplanted over a year ago. To make matters worse, of the 800 that should have been placed in the frontal hairline to thicken it, less than half of that number grew there. The other 2200+ grafts were put into other parts of his normal scalp. Other than the loss of his money charged for the unnecessary surgery, there was no damage to the normal transplanted hair throughout his head. Again, my motto is: Let the Buyer Beware!


2007-03-26 18:37:02Can You Place Grafts Between Growing Full Hairs?

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Not Hair Loss News – Science Working to Build Body Organs

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Andemariam Beyene sat by the hospital window, the low Arctic sun on his face, and talked about the time he thought he would die.

Two and a half years ago doctors in Iceland, where Mr. Beyene was studying to be an engineer, discovered a golf-ball-size tumor growing into his windpipe. Despite surgery and radiation, it kept growing. In the spring of 2011, when Mr. Beyene came to Sweden to see another doctor, he was practically out of options. “I was almost dead,” he said. “There was suffering. A lot of suffering.”

But the doctor, Paolo Macchiarini, at the Karolinska Institute here, had a radical idea. He wanted to make Mr. Beyene a new windpipe, out of plastic and his own cells.

Read the rest — A First: Organs Tailor-Made With Body’s Own Cells

I found this article and was blown away with excitement, so my first instinct was to share this with our readers. Imagine building organs with the help of the body’s own tools. That was done here and saved a life. One day, this will become common, for this I have little doubt.

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Same Cancer, Worse Results and Twice the Cost in the Us When Compared to Canada

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(CNN) — Americans paid twice as much as Canadians for health care, but they didn’t get twice the benefit, according to a new study of patients with advanced colorectal cancer who lived, in some cases, mere miles from each other……….. read more


2018-06-19 09:54:49Same Cancer, Worse Results and Twice the Cost in the Us When Compared to Canada

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Nutrition and Hair Loss

Dear Dr Rassman,

This is a great blog and have really learned a lot about hair loss from this site.

I am a 36 year old male experiencing MPB but I have lots of healthy body hair on chest and back.

My question is regarding nutrition and hair loss. Is the nutrition needs for scalp hair any differnet from nutrition for hair on the sides of the head or the rest of the body? After a hair transplant should one be worried about nutrition?

Would really appreciate your response.

Good nutrition is important for healthy hair, just as it is for a healthy body. Nutrition should not be a cause of hair loss, unless there is malnutrition present. Transplanted hair, like hair from the top, sides or back of your head, will do what your genetics dictate. Hair on the sides and back should grow for your lifetime and even if they are moved into the balding area, they will grow as if they were in the sides or back. After you have a hair transplant and you have reasonably good nutrition, your hair will grow and grow and grow in its new location, pretty much for the rest of your life. There is nothing that a reasonable man can do to stop the growth of the transplants.


2006-10-12 08:28:23Nutrition and Hair Loss

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Chances for a Hair Loss Cure?

What are the real chances of any of these “baldness cures” becoming a reality, I mean REAL no BS to make us feel better. Things like TRX2 and Aderans, when do you really think we will, if at all, see these on the market?

Probably not… but I am hopeful. To elaborate, we are at the infancy of genetic engineering and cloning. We are still striving to find the cure for the common cold, diabetes, cancer, HIV, etc. I think the cure for hair loss is not on the top of the list of what scientists puts their priorities on.

There have been some recent announcements, including the ReGenica press release, that may be worth looking at.


2009-02-19 15:23:36Chances for a Hair Loss Cure?

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Omega-3 Oils Boost Attention as Much as ADHD Drugs in Some Children

LONDON (Reuters) – Omega-3 fish oil supplements can improve attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) just as much as drug treatments, but only in those whose blood levels of omega-3 are low, trial results showed on Wednesday.

Researchers in Britain and Taiwan who conducted the placebo-controlled trial with 92 children said their findings suggest a “personalized medicine” approach should be adopted in this and other psychiatric conditions.

“The omega-3 supplements only worked in children that had lower levels of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) in their blood, as if the intervention was replenishing a lack of this important nutrient,” said Carmine Pariante, a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London who co-led the trial.

He said the work sets a precedent for other nutritional interventions and could be the start of “bringing the benefits of ‘personalized psychiatry’ to children with ADHD.”

ADHD is a common brain condition that affects an estimated 3% to 7% of people worldwide. Symptoms can include problems with attention and impulsivity that cause difficulties in academic, work and personal relationships.

In this study, published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, researchers from King’s and from the China Medical University in Taiwan conducted a randomized controlled trial with 92 children aged 6 to 18 with ADHD.

They were given either high doses of the omega-3 fatty acid EPA, or a placebo, for 12 weeks.

Results showed that children with the lowest blood levels of EPA showed improvements in focussed attention and vigilance after taking the omega-3 supplements.

Standard treatments for children with ADHD include stimulants such as Ritalin, known generically as methylphenidate, which can improve levels of concentration and focus in ADHD patients.

Pariante’s team said that while the amount of improvement in attention and vigilance from methylphenidate is generally 0.22 to 0.42, the effect seen in children with low levels of EPA in the trial was larger – at 0.89 for focused attention and 0.83 for vigilance.

But in children with normal EPA levels, omega-3 supplements made no improvement, and in those with high EPA, the supplements had negative effects on impulsivity symptoms.

The scientists warned parents should not give their children fish oil supplements without checking first with a doctor, and stressed that omega-3 levels can be checked with a blood test.

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Translational Psychiatry, online November 20, 2019.

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Chemo After Breast Cancer 2 Years Ago — Hair Still Hasn’t Come Back!

I had breast cancer and my last chemo treatment was in July of 2006. I finished radiation in October 2006. It has been almost two years and my very thick curly hair has not come back. I have a few sparse hairs all over my head, but they are very sparse. I take tamoxifen daily. Will my hair come back and what can I do to help it. I have used Nioxin for two years and just recently started uses minoxidil. Are there vitamins to help? Just what can I do?

I do not know how to help you. My experience is not in the area of chemotherapeutic drugs. Your best information will probably come from the doctors who are managing your chemo. They see many people with hair loss and can probably give you the answers you are looking for. I wish I could offer more, but this is beyond my specialty.