Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: May 2002 Posts: 2,152 | Angelia and anyone else on Cisplatin,
If you experience any kind of hearing loss or ringing in your ears, you need to let the doctor know immediately and they should switch you to carboplatin which does have this side effect.
Take care, Eileen
---------------------- Aug 1997 unknown primary, Stage III mets to 1 lymph node in neck; rt ND, 36 XRT rad Aug 2001 tiny tumor on larynx, Stage I total laryngectomy; left ND June 5, 2010 dx early stage breast cancer June 9, 2011 SCC 1.5 cm hypo pharynx, 70% P-16 positive, no mets, Stage I
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