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Ice on head
An ice cap on the head is done in some places and someone on another list said that she did not lose her hair due to the ice cap. I believe she lives in Europe and it was supplied by her infusion center.
However, I have read that a study was done and the fear is that the chemo would not be reaching areas in brain with an ice cap, thus allowing brain mets. Since I didn't know if this was true or not, I skipped the ice cap but did go with the frozen peas on my nails when I had Taxotere. My nails were fine, in fact, they seemed to grown in faster and stronger. But the Herceptin makes them very thin and weak but I only have one more Herceptin treatment to finish the year--weak nails are nothing if Herceptin stops reoccurance.!
Janet
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