Hair growth drug safe at low doses for breast cancer patients, retrospective cohort study shows

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A retrospective cohort study in women with breast cancer suggests that low oral doses of minoxidil taken during or after cancer treatment appear to regrow hair in most patients without causing any serious heart-related side effects that require additional therapies or hospitalization.

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