NASA Pioneered Chemotherapy Hair Loss Prevention Decades Ago?

Snippet from the opinion article:

I read with interest your article Chemotherapy Hair Loss Invention From Sweden Might Help Patients Keep Hair but it really is old news !

Around thirty years ago, Dr. Bill Williams, of NASA, conducted research on thermo control of body temperature (very important to astronauts in space suits). He patented his invention of the “Cool Head and Cool Neck Band”.

Read the rest at the Epoch Times — Chemotherapy Hair Loss Prevention Pioneered by NASA, Thirty Years Ago

The above is part of a letter by a retired NASA researcher, and it should be noted that it is in the opinion section.

It basically says that a NASA scientist helped develop a cooling system for helmets, and although the headline might lead you to believe there’s more info about hair loss and chemo, it only briefly mentions an “experiment to save the hair of chemotherapy patients“. But that’s it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t discuss the study or what that experiment was… and I’m coming up empty when trying to find if the study was ever published. Anyone?