Open AccessPostradiation hypertrichosis: A paradox
Author(s) -
Jai Prakash Agarwal,
M. Upasani,
Yogesh Ghadi,
Anusheel Munshi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.131419
Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrichosis , radiation therapy , adenocarcinoma , dermatology , radiodermatitis , oncology , radiology , cancer
Alopecia due to radiation has remained a widely accepted aspect of radiotherapy. We present an unexpected clinical scenario, where a patient with left lung stage IIIB nonsmall cell adenocarcinoma, treated with radiochemotherapy achieved a complete response and developed an obscure late effect in terms of paradoxical hypertrichosis in the radiation portals. The paper presents plausible hypothesis for this unusual phenomenon.