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I have gone through chemo twice. The first time my hair came back thick and curly. The second time I had Taxotere along with Zometa and Herceptin. I finished with 6 months of treatments in January 2002. I continued on Herceptin and Zometa and take it to this day with treatments every three weeks. I have what I call male pattern baldness. I have a very small amount of hair on the crown of my head. (cetainly not enough for a combover! :-) I have very fine, thin hair on the rest of my head but it is thick enough that it looks ok. I wear wigs or caps when I am in public. At the time of the second chemo I also lost my eyelashes and eyebrows and they are not fully grown in either. At one point I contacted Genentech about this and they said that there were reports of a few other women like this. But, no solution. On a positive note I also have very few leg hairs that also grow very slowly so no need to shave daily!
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