I've had Taxotere, another Taxane Chemo, and Carboplatin, Cisplatin's cousin, as some of my treatments.
I can't say that Taxotere was that easy, I won't cover my first round in 2009, a disaster, but my second time in 2012, I had some of the side effects described above, plus needing a blood transfusion, hand and foot syndrome, conjunctivitis, and stopped it after the 4th week, but I had it combined with other Chemo's or with a targeted therapy. Carboplatin was the easiest for me, but still had side effects that were manageable such as mucocitus, although the corticosteroid spiked my blood sugar to dangerous levels each infusion too.
In any case, all chemo's, targeted therapies, other drugs for that matter, have toxic side effects. which toxicities can depend on the type of chemo, combination of other chemo's, the dosage amount, the speed or rate of infusion, the frequency of each infusion, besides the patients age, general health, other co-morbities. Radiation too depends on type of radiation, the fraction size, dosage or Grays, areas radiated, ipsilateral or bi-laterally, if previously radiated, if having Chemoradiation, and the type of Chemo.
http://www.chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/taxol.aspxhttp://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/Paraplatin.aspxGood luck
