Early Alopecia May Signal Chemo Response in Ovarian Cancer

 Cancer Network

 ......When adjusting for the common clinicopathologic features such as postoperative tumor residuals, histology, and FIGO stage, early-onset—up to cycle 4—grade 2 alopecia appeared to significantly correlate with a more favorable OS,” the researchers wrote. “It needs to be further elucidated whether early-onset alopecia is just a surrogate marker for higher sensitivity to chemotherapy and hence associated with a longer survival or if other unidentified biological pathways are underlying that correlate alopecia with cytotoxicity and survival.”