Cisplatin is used for the treatment of metastatic testicular tumors, metastatic ovarian tumors, advanced bladder carcinoma, testicular neoplasms, ovarian neoplasms, head and neck cancer, cervical carcinoma, lung carcinoma and a wide variety of other neoplasms. The drug is often used as a component of combination chemotherapeutic regimens because of its relative lack of hematologic toxicity.