how does cancer make your hair fall out?

Question: how does cancer make your hair fall out?
- Keywords:
  cancer,
  hair,
  treatment
Asked by to Del, Catherine, John on 20 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Adelle Thrower answered on 20 Mar 2014:
  
  it doesnt- its the treatment you get given when you have cancer that makes hair fall out.
  chemotherapy targets both cancer and normals cells that grow fast- its the bad thing about the treamtnet, cells that grow hair- epithelial cells normally grow really fast- the chemo mistakes these for cancer cells and thus attacks them- this makes our hair fall out.

Question: how does cancer make your hair fall out?