Permanent Hair Loss Makes the Fear of Growing Old All Too Real

Women dread losing their hair more than other physical symptoms of chemotherapy

Friday, December 29, 2017 - Women have a real and tangible fear when it comes to growing older and perhaps developing cancer. Losing a breast to the disease is first and foremost on the list of cancer treatment consequences they dread, but a very close second is the adverse side effect of hair loss. Women value their appearance and hair is a virtue of what makes them attractive and feminine. Some women fear losing their hair permanently is even more frightening than having to undergo a mastectomy. Leading American magazine U.S. News featured an article stating that almost 10% of women surveyed would do without the recommended course of chemotherapy if permanent hair loss was to be expected. Anti-cancer chemotherapy drug Taxotere has been cited as causing permanent, total, and irreversible hair loss in approximately 10-15% of women receiving the treatment and its manufacturer, Sanofi's warning that "hair generally grows back," is vague and misleading and the company has failed to warn them that permanent hair loss could be expected. In a nutshell, Taxotere anti-cancer chemotherapy has made many women's worst nightmare, waking up one day and being totally and permanently bald, become a reality.

A doctor may view hair loss as insignificant when it comes to the life and death nature of receiving a cancer diagnosis. When an oncologist breaks the news to a woman that their greatest fears have come true and that they have cancer, female patients ask questions as to the side effects that chemotherapy may have. Nausea, vomiting, lethargy, lack of appetite are common adverse side effects of all anti-cancer drugs. A cancer doctor may also downplay hair loss as a "vanity" thing and that it is nothing to worry about and that their hair will grow back in a month or two when chemotherapy ends. Usually, however, nothing is mentioned of the percentage of cancer patients that will have to suffer through the rest of their lives without hair. Taxotere has been given hundreds of thousands of cancer patients since 2005 yet the company waited until 2015 to even mention the term Alopecia in its list of adverse side effects. For thousands of Taxotere hair loss victims the permanent hair loss warning was too little and came too late. Many of which are now hiring Taxotere hair loss lawyers to file product liability lawsuits against the drug’s manufacturer.

When the "real" side effects of chemotherapy are explained to a cancer patient, doctors are quick to point out that with Taxotere, treatments have to be taken only half as often thus the side effect will be significantly less. What they may fail to stress is that due to the potency of Taxotere, hair follicles are killed along with the targeted cancer cells causing permanent, irreversible hair loss on the head, eyelashes, eyebrows and body hair including pubic hair as well.

Women who were kept unaware of Taxotere's propensity to cause permanent hair loss are suing Sanofi, maker of Taxotere for the damages they suffer from the psychological trauma they have been forced to suffer.

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• Taxotere Patients Denied Their Right To Make An Informed Decision | 4/24/2019
• Patients Must Be Made Aware Of Taxotere's Three Major Side Effects | 4/18/2019
• Women Are Angry Over Sanofi Failing To Warn About The Possibility of Permanent Hair Loss | 4/12/2019
• Women Undergoing Cancer Treatments Are Taking Better Care of Themselves to Limit Hair Loss | 4/5/2019
• Taxotere Permanent Hair Loss Has Devastating Psychological Implications For Patients | 3/25/2019
• Taxotere Causes Alopecia Which Can Be Psychologically Damaging | 3/20/2019
• Drug Makers Need To Write Clearer, More Descriptive Drug Warnings Starting With Taxotere | 3/18/2019
• Taxotere Lawsuits May Teach Doctors a Valuable Lesson | 3/13/2019
• Taxotere Permanent Baldness Warning | 4/30/2018
• Taxotere Chemotherapy and Permanent Hair Loss | 4/26/2018
• Sanofi Sales Representatives Oversold Taxotere | 4/24/2018
• Scientific Study Confirms Permanent Taxotere Hair Loss | 4/12/2018
• Chemotherapy Drug Side Effects | 4/9/2018
• Cancer Doctors Fail to Warn Patients | 4/4/2018
• Taxotere's Psychological Side Effects | 3/13/2018
• Permanent Hair Loss Can Lead to Depression | 3/6/2018
• A Woman's Hair is Linked to Their Feminity | 2/23/2018
• Studies Indicate Taxotere Causes Permanent Hair Loss | 2/14/2018
• Taxotere's Ambiguous Hair Loss Warning | 2/5/2018
• Thousands of Women File Taxotere Hair Loss Lawsuits | 12/27/2017
• Taxotere Patients Psychological Trauma Result in Lawsuits Against Sanofi-Aventis | 12/22/2017
• Scientific Studies Point to Taxotere Hair Loss | 12/18/2017
• Cancer Patients Right to Make an Informed Decision | 12/13/2017
• How Women Think About Chemotherapy Hair Loss | 12/11/2017
• The Emotional Side Effects of Alopecia | 12/8/2017
• Taxotere May Cause Permanent Hair Loss | 12/4/2017
• Women Equate Baldness With Masculinity | 11/27/2017
• Symptoms of Permanent Hair Loss | 11/21/2017
• Taxotere's Warning May Have Come Too Late For Many | 11/15/2017
• Taxotere Benefits and Side Effects | 11/9/2017
• Women Were Not Given a Choice of Cancer Drugs | 11/1/2017
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• Taxotere is Highly Toxic and Causes Permanent Hair Loss | 9/15/2017
• 10-15 Percent of Cancer Patients Given Taxotere Develop Permanent Hair Loss | 9/8/2017
• Permanent Hair Loss From Taxotere is a Real Possibility | 9/1/2017
• Taxotere Permanent Hair Loss Lawsuits | 7/21/2017
• Permanent Hair Loss Caused by Taxotere | 6/26/2017
• Taxotere Warnings Now Include Permanent Hair Loss | 6/19/2017
• Taxotere Hair Loss Lawsuits Focus on Warning Label | 6/12/2017
• Permanent Hair Loss in Some Taxotere Users Delivers Secondary Blow to Cancer Patients | 6/5/2017

Lawyers for Taxotere Hair Loss Lawsuits

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