Type of chemotherapy | Mechanical sensibility | VDT | CDT/WDT |
Taxanes | Reduced touch detections42,s50 | Increased VDTs43–s45,s48,s50 | No change/mildly elevated WDT or CDTs42,s46–s48,s50 |
Cisplatin | Reduced touch detection or no change in some series17,s112 | Increased VDT17,s53–s55 | No change/mildly elevated at high dose17,s112 |
Oxaliplatin | Reduced touch detection in lower limbs or no change in some seriess112–s114 | Increased VDTs55,s56,s110 | Inconsistent findings (no change, impaired in minority or increased CDT and WDT)s50,s57,s112,s113 |
Vincristine | Reduced touch detections58,s84 | Increased VDTs111 | Increased WDTs58 |
Bortezomib | Reduced touch detections59,s60 | – | Increased WDTs59 |
*Cited studies in superscript numbers.
CDT, cold detection threshold;CIPN, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neurotoxicity; VDT, vibration detection threshold; WDT, warm detection threshold.