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Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, carboplatin, docetaxel, and capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving bexarotene and tretinoin together with combination chemotherapy may kill more tumor cells.
â¢ platinum-based chemotherapy regimens â containing a chemotherapy drug known as a âplatinum agentâ in combination with other chemotherapy drugs and; â¢ non-platinum-based chemotherapy regimens â containing other chemotherapy drugs without a âplatinum agentâ. Over the past years, many studies have been done comparing the use of platinum-based chemotherapy regimens and non-platinum-based chemotherapy regimens in SCLC.