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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | John suffered hearing loss in one ear from Cisplatin. It wasn't very bad but significant enough for the audiologist to suggest a hearing aid which John refused. He was put on carboplatin when the phase 1 clinical trial of immunotherapy did not work for him.
Cancer treatment does force us all to learn stuff which we would otherwise never even hear of.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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