Medically reviewed by Katlein Franca, MD Key Takeaways CCCA is a type of hair loss that mainly affects Black women and begins ...

In a case series of 17 men with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, 47.1% had a family history of alopecia. Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), a type of scarring alopecia, most ...

NEW YORK — The diagnosis of central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), the most common form of cicatrizing hair loss in Black women, is still being missed, resulting in delayed diagnoses and ...

CCCA patients experience longer diagnostic delays, with a mean TTD of 5.67 years, compared to other scarring alopecias. Black patients face longer diagnostic delays, but alopecia subtype is the only ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most patients experienced improvement in CCCA symptoms, and six had hair regrowth. Gene pathways identified in ...

(HealthDay)—Protease-activated receptor 2 (PAR-2), which is activated by cowhage, may play a role in central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), the most common cause of scarring hair loss in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) is a scarring baldness that mostly affects Black women. Higher ...

(HealthDay)—Black women with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA) have increased likelihood of uterine leiomyomas (ULs), according to a research letter published online Dec. 27 in JAMA ...

Marissa Joseph, MD, MSc, FRCPC, medical director at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, highlighted cases from her practice to illustrate the recommended approach to scarring ...

This is the opening line of one of the many poems I have written to process my alopecia diagnosis. The piece came to me in the shower one day, and somehow when I got out, I remembered each word. It is ...