Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,294 Likes: 1 | [quote=TheHellion]Oh David, I'm so sorry to hear that. My Rad oncologist and my other ENT intimated that they feel the same way about the relative value of Cisplatin and Carboplatin but as my chemo oncologist said, Carbo doesn't have the depth hand breadth of clinical numbers regarding SCC that Cisplatin does -- Cisplatin has better clinical results and, more importantly, much much more data (according to her research) so she goes with it In healthy patients (well healthy minus the cancer) to maximize the chances -- it's aggressive, but if it works for you, you have a better (on paper) prognosis. I'm glad I let them know about my side effects, though. One thing I'm not shy about is communicating.
Thanks for the feedback!
The Hellion [/quote] That's news to me. My understand is both are quite effective if you believe they act as radiosynthesisers at all. Some don't necessary feel that concurrent chemo and rads together offer much more than just rads. Just saying, there is lots of various opinions amongst the "experts".
Don Male, 1955 Great health except C Dec '12 DX: BOT SCC T2N2bMx, Stage 4a, HPV+, multiple nodes 1 tooth out Jan '13 2nd tooth out Tumor Board -induction TPF (3 cycles), seq CRT 4-6/2013 CRT 70gr 2x35, weekly carbo150 ended 5/29,6/4
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