Your nurse, doctor or radiographer can give you more advice about hair care and coping with hair loss. They will be able to tell you how likely it is that you will lose some or all of your hair during your treatment.

If you’d like to read more about hair loss now, you may find the following information useful:

Coping with hair loss

Hair care and hair loss. A guide for cancer patients

Royal Marsden online booklet for chemotherapy and radiotherapy patients. It covers wigs and wig care, headwear, children, scalp care and make-up. List of useful addresses.

Scalp cooling
Cancerbackup online factsheet.