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Journal Article
Minimal added value of wetting hair before scalp cooling to prevent chemotherapy-induced alopecia in cancer patients — results from the Dutch Scalp Cooling Registry
2023
Overview
Purpose
Preventing chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) is related to the degree of temperature reduction during scalp cooling. Wetting hair before scalp cooling reduces the scalp skin temperature. This observational study investigated the effects of wetting hair before scalp cooling on preventing CIA and on tolerance in cancer patients.
Methods
This Dutch multi-center cohort study comprised 1825 patients receiving ≥1 cycle of docetaxel (D), 5-fluorouracil-epirubicin-cyclophosphamide (FEC), 5-fluorouracil-epirubicin-cyclophosphamide-docetaxel (FECD), paclitaxel (P), or paclitaxel-carboplatin (PC). Patients underwent scalp cooling with wet or dry hair. Primary and secondary outcomes were the effects of wetting hair on head cover use and tolerance, respectively.
Results
None of the associations between wetting hair and head cover use in patients on D, FEC, P, or PC was significant; however, results all tended to be in favor of wetting hair. For FECD, univariate (
p
=0.005; OR=1.6; CI=1.1–2.1) and multivariable associations (
p
=0.007; OR=1.8; CI=1.2-2.6) were significant. Scalp cooling discontinuation due to intolerance differed significantly between groups that wetted hair or not (3% and 1% respectively;
p
=0.034).
Conclusion
In a large patient group with mainly a European hair type and a high hair mass, no convincing evidence was found whether wetting hair prior to scalp cooling contributes to better prevention of CIA. Since it is argued that a higher reduction in scalp skin temperature by wetting hair contributes positively to scalp cooling efficacy, only a randomized controlled trial can provide an ultimate conclusion at the highest level of evidence. Until that time, healthcare professionals have to take into account that wetting hair may introduce lower compliance to the scalp cooling procedure.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Alopecia - chemically induced
/ Alopecia - prevention & control
/ Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects
/ Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols - adverse effects
/ Baldness
/ Cancer
/ Cooling
/ Cyclophosphamide - adverse effects
/ Efficacy
/ Epirubicin - adverse effects
/ Female
/ Fluorouracil - adverse effects
/ Hair
/ Humans
/ Hypothermia, Induced - methods
/ Medicine
/ Nursing
/ Oncology
/ Paclitaxel - adverse effects
/ Patients
/ Scalp
/ Skin
