Cancer Cooling Cap

Some insurance carriers may cover the cost of renting caps or using a scalp cooling system.

Cancer cooling cap.

With scalp cooling systems the cap is attached to a small refrigeration machine that circulates coolant so the cap only has to be fitted once and doesn t need to changed during chemotherapy. Scalp cooling systems such as the dignicap system and the paxman system are purchased by a cancer treatment center and people are charged to use the system while receiving chemotherapy. Some doctors are concerned that the cold could keep chemo from reaching any stray cancer cells lurking in the scalp. Fda initially cleared the device the dignicap scalp cooling system for patients with breast cancer in 2015.

But in people who have used scalp. The cost of cool caps varies depending on the manufacturer the number of chemotherapy sessions and the duration of treatment. Cancer treatment centers purchase scalp cooling systems and patients are charged for their use. Cooling caps that are not fitted tightly have also been linked with more hair loss often in patches where contact with the scalp is poor.

The food and drug administration fda has cleared a cooling cap a device designed to reduce hair loss during chemotherapy for use by patients with any kind of solid tumor.