Date: April 4, 2011
Time Spent: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time: 8 hours 30 minutes
Actions: Myth versus Fact: Question about hair loss
How am I Doing: A big misconception when people think of cancer is hair falling out. Alot people think that your hair falls out because of the cancer. They believe that if your hair starts to fall out, then it means you have cancer. I thought this to be true as well, but I learned people losing their hair is an effect of the treatment, the chemo. According to Pauline, most of the cancer patients lose their hair during the course of their treatment. Some of them cut their hair very short and some of them wear hats. One of her patients lost all of the hair she had including eyebrows and eyelashes.
Next Action: I will ask her about the age range she encounters everyday and the most common kind of cancer that she encountered at her work.
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