I've had carboplatin my last chemoradiation treatment, which ended in January, 2014. It was the easiest chemo I had, and had 4 others before, but everyone is different. There are the usual toxicities associated with the platinum based chemo, but some are not as severe as Cisplatin, others that can be more severe, if I recall from my reading. I had slight tiredness, but I was going through Proton radiation too, and traveling each day to get there by hiring a driver, which was stressful on its own, and couldn't wait to get zapped. Besides that, I had mucucocitis and thrush start about week 2 or so, which was treated with nystatin swish and swallow, NeutraSal rinse, although it's no longer available, and having my mouth sprayed daily at the radiation center by the nurse. I was still able to eat, and basically lived on egg drop soup and Glucerna. Trying to recall what else, and probably didn't post much when going through treatments, but I'll check back.

The oncologist checked my blood levels, CBC maybe, each time before the infusion, especially the liver enzymes, to see if they were out of range, and had weekly infusions instead of the 3 you noted.

There was discussion here before about Cisplatin vs Carboplatin with a study of such I may have posted, which may include this meta-anylsis if you like reading.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4872772/

In addition, here is a drug info sheet on Carboplatin:

http://chemocare.com/chemotherapy/drug-info/carboplatin.aspx