Head Cooling For Cancer Patients
Machines for cooling of the scalp are available and prescribed to patients undergoing chemotherapy to prevent hair loss due to chemotherapy.
Read more about this topic: Management Of Baldness
Famous quotes containing the words head, cooling, cancer and/or patients:
“I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“her in her cooling planet
Revere; do not presume to think her wasted.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)
“Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)