Question

Hair grows from hair follicles, pockets of continually dividing cells in the outer layer of the skin. New cells are added to the base of a hair shaft, inside each follicle. Use what you have learned in this lesson to explain why cancer patients often lose their hair when receiving chemotherapy and grow more hair after chemotherapy stops

Answer 1

he chemicals stop cell division in both cancer cells and healthy cells, such as the ones that produce hair. When no new cells are being added to the hair shafts, the shafts break and the hairs fall out. When chemotherapy stops, cell division in the hair follicles resumes and hair starts to grow again

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