Characteristics, treatment of radiation-induced hair loss in cancer patients

What The Study Did: Characteristics and response to treatment of persistent radiation-induced hair loss in patients with primary central nervous system tumors or head and neck cancer were examined in this observational study.

Authors: Mario E. Lacouture, M.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2020.2127)

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