Hair loss can be difficult, cancer patients say and some want better access to options
CBC White Coat Black Art26:30Hair Loss Part I: The trouble with wigs
Cairo Gregory doesn't think about her hair too often anymore.
For much of her life, she says she didn't have the "greatest" relationship with her hair. Gregory, a 16-year-old student in Toronto, had at one point straightened her hair so much, it ended up damaged. So she cut it short "I hated it," she said.
But eventually, as she learned to style her hair, she grew to love it. So last year, when her hair started falling out in her second week of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, she says she found the loss difficult. Like many of those going through chemotherapy, she made the decision to completely shave her head as she started shedding.
"I think that was probably the most upsetting part for me," she told White Coat, Black Art host Dr. Brian Goldman.
"When it fell out, it was like my entire Instagram [timeline] was just hair videos, like new hairstyles because I'd gotten really into that at that point. So it really sucked when it was like something that actually really, really became important to me at that period of time."
