[quote=donfoo][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". [/quote]

Oh I agree -- I don't think there are any final answers. What I describe is what my chemo oncologist believes and is telling me.. Far as we were able to research, Carbo has a great record too, just not as much clinical data, and maybe, just maybe, comes in a little under Cisplat, although that may appear that way because of the lower clinical numbers for SCC.

At this point, I'm comfortable with the new cocktail and to take their advice, largely because there are no definitives, but neither both seem to be applied and are considers effective.

The Hellion