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 ...

PITTSBURGH — As a baby, Kim Nyalka's now 7-year-old daughter would twist her fingers through her mother's hair as she fell asleep, and playing with her mother's hair is still a treasured habit. So ...

Sixteen doses of chemotherapy sent Breanne Hillen's breast cancer into remission in 2021, but the treatments also left the Erie woman bald. It took two-and-a-half years for her hair to grow back. Just ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S. About 240,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year in the U.S. alone according ...

In December, I joined the 1 in 8 women in the United States diagnosed with breast cancer. Found on a routine mammogram, my tumor was small, and by all measures I had the best prognosis possible. The ...

The inspiring challenge not only celebrated her remarkable recovery, but aims to raise £10,000 for a second cold cap machine at Pontefract Hospital’s Chemotherapy Day Unit. A cold cap is a device used ...

With loving hands and a dainty hook, a craftsman is making the world a little warmer by crocheting colorful caps -- almost as colorful as the tattoos on his muscular forearms. With loving hands and 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 ...