LisaB, I have no idea when it was introduced, but I can tell you it was not new 5 years ago when I had it. I only had two influsions because my hearing got really strange so I was switched to carboplatin and one of the tax* drugs and can hear just fine today. I am also here today without recurrence, so as far as I am concerned, it is a good drug.

I just remembered one of the chemo docs telling me, as he took me off it, that he had used it 25 years previously and his patient went totally deaf. I do not know if that was a head and neck patient, but that indicates the drug has been around for a long time.