Hair Shaft Alteration in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy

Reti Anggraeni, Ardelia Dyah Ayu, M. Eko Irawanto, Suci Widhiati, Muhammad Riza

2018

Abstract

Hairs have no vital function but it may use as an indicator for the human’s health. Hair shaft is a unique structure which composed of inner cortex and protective outer cuticle. Hair shaft disorders may be inherited or acquired, as in a local or systemic disease. One of the acquired causals is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy agent can damage the structure or morphology of the hair including hair shaft pattern. Cross sectional analytical study was conducted in Dr. Moewardi General Hospital Surakarta. Forty five subjects, aged 1-14 years old were enrolled. The study subjects (n=30) were pediatric patients undergoing chemotherapy, the control group (n=15) comprised of children who never had chemotherapy. Of the 30 subjects from study group, 27 (90%) had altered hair shaft. Two (13.3%) of fifteen children in control group had hair shaft alteration. Statistical analysis using Mann-Whitney U Test obtained p=0.000 which means there was a significant different between incidents of hair shaft alteration between children undergoing chemotherapy and children never had chemotherapy. Further study is needed to describe more about the most common group of chemotherapeutic agents which cause the alteration and the relation between the type of cancer and hair shaft alteration.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Anggraeni R., Ayu A., Irawanto M., Widhiati S. and Riza M. (2018). Hair Shaft Alteration in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy.In Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD, ISBN 978-989-758-494-7, pages 104-107. DOI: 10.5220/0008151801040107

in Bibtex Style

@conference{rcd18,
author={Reti Anggraeni and Ardelia Dyah Ayu and M. Eko Irawanto and Suci Widhiati and Muhammad Riza},
title={Hair Shaft Alteration in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,},
year={2018},
pages={104-107},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008151801040107},
isbn={978-989-758-494-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd Regional Conference of Dermatology - Volume 1: RCD,
TI - Hair Shaft Alteration in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy
SN - 978-989-758-494-7
AU - Anggraeni R.
AU - Ayu A.
AU - Irawanto M.
AU - Widhiati S.
AU - Riza M.
PY - 2018
SP - 104
EP - 107
DO - 10.5220/0008151801040107