{"id":26195,"date":"2020-07-16T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/one-familys-mission-to-stop-hair-loss-from-chemotherapy-your-stories-podcast\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:44","slug":"one-familys-mission-to-stop-hair-loss-from-chemotherapy-your-stories-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/one-familys-mission-to-stop-hair-loss-from-chemotherapy-your-stories-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"One Family\u2019s Mission to Stop Hair Loss from Chemotherapy: Your Stories Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series Your Stories: Conquering Cancer<\/em><\/a> <\/em>to showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them.<\/p>\n

Losing your hair due to cancer treatment can be devastating, but hearing the stories of others who have been through a similar experience can help you cope. In the latest Your Stories<\/em> episode, \u201cRemembering Mum,\u201d siblings Claire and Rich Paxman reflect on their late mother Sue\u2019s experience and share how it inspires their work helping patients prevent hair loss.<\/p>\n

Hair and heartbreak<\/h3>\n

Claire Paxman will never forget the day her mom lost her hair. \u201cOne of the worst things I\u2019ve ever had to do\u2014that gives me the passion and drive for what we do now\u2014is stand in the bathroom with orange-handled scissors from the kitchen, cutting that beautiful, beautiful curly hair off,\u201d recalls Claire.<\/p>\n

Sue chose to part with her token curls when the side effects from chemotherapy<\/a> kicked in. \u201cShe could hide it before that,\u201d says Rich. \u201cIt was that clear sign she was going through chemotherapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A legacy in preventing hair loss<\/h3>\n

Hair loss can be highly emotional for patients and their families. \u201cThere\u2019s tens and tens of individual reasons why people want to keep their hair,\u201d says Rich. \u201cAnd the last one is vanity. It has nothing to do with vanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by their experiences, the Paxman siblings created a scalp cooling technology to help patients limit hair loss. This technology is used before and during chemotherapy. Patients wear a soft cap that restricts blood flow to hair follicles and reduces their metabolic rate, which are 2 factors that contribute to hair loss from chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

More than 30 clinical trials<\/a> have been conducted since the 1970s to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of scalp cooling therapy. The Paxman\u2019s scalp cooling system is 1 of 2 systems approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do every day makes it a little bit easier, knowing that we\u2019re helping people,\u201d says Rich.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll because of one incredible, special lady,\u201d says Claire. \u201cThat\u2019s mum who\u2019s doing that. Mum\u2019s legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read a transcript<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, developed the podcast series Your Stories: Conquering Cancer to showcase unscripted conversations between patients, doctors, and the family and friends who conquer cancer with them. Losing your hair due to cancer treatment can be devastating, but hearing the stories of others who have been through a similar experience can help you cope. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45614,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26195\/revisions\/45614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}