Is your concern the cisplatin given weekly in smaller doses, rather than in 3 to 4 larger doses over the course of treatment? Giving smaller doses weekly appears to be the latest standard -- based on the postings of others here, such a schedule may serve to ameliorate some of cisplatin's side effects.




Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.