Christine,

20% is a lot when you look at it that way After meeting with the audiologist yesterday, she was confident, based on my test results, I would be Ok. Perhaps a bit of high frequency loss which wouldn't affect me too much as most of what I do falls in the mid-range frequencies.

Also, hearing loss with Cisplatin is more likely with higher dose treatments. I'm getting a medium dose over 6 weeks. The test was more of a precautionary measure to monitor the situation. Being that Cisplatin is more effective than Carboplatin, I'd rather lose those two fingers and be NED than take the chance of not curing this. Hearing loss is not one of the primary side effects from my understanding but it happens frequently enough to warrant monitoring in my situation.

"T"