Objective: The genotype-phenotype relationship in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity remains unclear. By assessing early shifts in distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) levels after initial cisplatin administration, we aimed to discriminate patients' susceptibility to cisplatin-induced ototoxicity and elucidate their genetic background.

Study Design: A prospective cross-sectional study.

Setting: Tertiary referral hospital in Japan.

Patients: Twenty-six patients with head and neck cancer were undergoing chemoradiotherapy with three cycles of 100 mg/m cisplatin.

Interventions: Repetitive pure-tone audiometry and DPOAE measurements, and blood sampling for DNA extraction were performed. Patients were grouped into early ototoxicity presence or absence based on whether DPOAE level shifts exceeded the corresponding reference limits of the 21-day test interval.

Main Outcome Measures: Hearing thresholds after each cisplatin cycle, severity of other adverse events, and polymorphisms in cisplatin-induced ototoxicity-associated genes were compared.

Results: Early ototoxicity was present in 14 and absent in 12 patients. Ototoxicity presence on DPOAEs was associated with greater progression of hearing loss in frequencies ≥2 kHz throughout therapy and with higher ototoxicity grades compared with ototoxicity absence. Ototoxicity was further associated with grade ≥2 nausea. Ototoxicity presence was genetically associated with the GSTT1 null genotype and G-allele of NFE2L2 rs6721961, whereas ototoxicity absence was associated with the GSTM1 null genotype. Dose-dependent progression of hearing loss was the greatest in the combined genotype pattern of GSTT1 null and the T/G or G/G variants of rs6721961.

Conclusion: Early DPOAE changes reflected genetic vulnerability to cisplatin-induced ototoxicity. Hereditary insufficiency of the antioxidant defense system causes severe cisplatin-induced hearing loss and nausea.

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