Episode 40: How to Keep Your Hair During Chemo (and How to Afford It)
"8% of female patients said they would forgo chemotherapy due to fear of hair loss. We actually had one of those patients that we worked with that became not a statistic anymore."
Bethany Hornthal, co-founder and executive director of Hair to Stay — the only national nonprofit exclusively funding scalp cooling access for low-income chemo patients — built the infrastructure behind scalp cooling's FDA clearance and then stayed to solve the access problem nobody else was addressing. In this conversation, she breaks down the science, the insurance battle strategy, and the personal history that…
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