 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Ed
My treatment with Carboplatin (three doses a week apart) did not affect my hearing at all according to hearing tests. I did have some nausea but not nearly as the first round of TX. Both my radiologist and chemo doctors were fine with me not using cisplatin but carboplatin after I asked about it.
Charm
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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