Chemotherapy Hair Regrowth?

Everyone is aware that chemotherapy often leads to hair loss. What was new to me was the fact that when hair regrows it often returns a different colour or texture. Curly hair can return straight, straight hair can return curly. Hair might return lighter, darker or even grey.





I was searching for incidence figures but found none. In what percentage of cases will a change in texture occur?





Thanks!Chemotherapy Hair Regrowth?
Only some chemotherapy drugs cause hair loss, but it is almost always temporary. Hair re-growth may not begin until several weeks have passed since the final treatment. This is the most common impact that chemotherapy has on the outer surfaces of the body.





Hair regrown after Chemotherapy is mostly like what the patient had early i.e. before chemotherapy. In most of the cases more hair is grown. But it will not change the color of hair or texture of the hair. You might have noticed is very rare. It will look odd only in the older patients who used hair dye as the new hair will be white or brown.





In occassional or rare cases what you have mentioned may happen. -Chemotherapy Hair Regrowth?
I didn't think this phenomena actually happened till my dad had chemo and whole brain radiation. With the chemo, his hair went from thick brown turning silver to a lighter brown with the same texture.


The really weird thing is that a year later he had the WBR, it came back super fine, like baby hair and almost a weird auburn color. It also came back in these strange patterns, I can only assume that was from where the radiation was. Once it grew in, it looked o.k.
Well mine grew back thicker, darker and curly (was blonde, thin and straight - now it's dark blonde, thick and curly.) My mate who had Breast Cancer was a blonde with thin, wavy hair - now it's thick, dark brown and curly. I don't know anyone else that has had cancer so that's all the info i have for you :)
there is no percentage, chemo damages good cells as well as bad ones, every chemo is designed for each and every individual person depending on type of cancer, height weight, etc. i am on my 7th chemo,every 3 weeks my hair keeps growing back then falling out, with 3 more to go i will be interested to see how it comes back,it was elbow length natural corkskrew curls, its like fluff now,
My hair was straight all my life and before chemo it was past the shoulder in length; dark brown and wavy toward the ends. After chemo, oh boy, the back is real curly and the rest is curly. It is thinner. I am waiting for it to get long enough to do something with it.
I'm not sure about actual statistics... but my hair was thin and straight before chemo and after it was thick and seems to be a little wavy, but it's only a few inches long so it's hard to tell.