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Are you Cold CapTherapy
catching your
Why some chemotherapy patients are choosing it
Zzzzs?
While losing your hair may sound like a small
If you’re having persistent sleep price to pay for preventing cancer from coming
issues, you may have a sleep back, it’s a side effect that’s often hard to take.
disorder. Sleep disorders involve Not only can losing your hair be tough on
the quality, timing and/or your self-image, it’s also a vivid and constant
amount of sleep you experience reminder of a cancer diagnosis. Cold cap
nightly, which impact your therapy has helped some women keep their
ability to function during the hair during chemotherapy. Through generous
day. Untreated sleep disorders support from the community, a limited number
can lead to serious health of cold cap systems are available for eligible
consequences, so the sooner patients who will be starting chemotherapy. If
yours is diagnosed and treated, you are interested, please call 888.494.2602.
the better.
What is Cold caps work by narrowing the blood vessels
To make an appointment Cold Cap beneath the skin of the scalp, reducing the amount
with a Summa sleep specialist Therapy? of chemotherapy that reaches the hair follicles.
or to schedule a sleep study With less chemotherapy medicine in the follicles,
at one of our three Summa the hair may be less likely to fall out.
sleep labs, call 888.689.2037.
Cold caps are tightly fitting,
To learn more, visit strap-on, helmet-type hats
summahealth.org/sleep – filled with a gel coolant
and put your sleep problems
to bed for good! Women who received only taxane
chemotherapy have had better results
About 70 million Americans with cold caps and scalp cooling Cold caps are
suffer from chronic sleep systems than women who received considered
only anthracycline chemotherapy.
problems, such as obstructive highly effective in
sleep apnea (OSA)
50-65%
of the women who
use them
9% of middle- An estimated Talk to your oncologist For opportunities to support
aged women 80% of if you are considering advances in cancer treatment
and 25% of using a cold cap to find and research at Summa Health,
middle-aged moderate-to out if it is an option with please contact Jessica Hudson,
severe OSA your cancer type. Some senior director of development
men suffer cases have gone doctors are concerned that at 888.545.7223 or visit
from OSA undiagnosed the caps may prevent the summahealth.org/giving.
chemotherapy medicine
from reaching cancer cells
that may be in the scalp.
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