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Do you ever offer scalp cooling therapy to metastatic breast cancer patients wishing to avoid alopecia?

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Medical Oncology · Harvard Medical School

I routinely offer scalp cooling to such patients. I do acknowledge to patients that we do not have evidence to support scalp cooling in the metastatic setting, that the best evidence to support its efficacy is with taxane-based regimens, and that we really cannot be sure how or if scalp cooling will...

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