If your cancer is progressing after having had a maximal response, if your disease does not respond after 2 courses of therapy, or if you are not able to tolerate some side effects of docetaxel plus carboplatin, your chemotherapy will be switched to etoposide plus cisplatin. If this is the case, etoposide plus cisplatin will be given to you by a vein in your arm or central line in a vein. You will receive this therapy combination once a day (etoposide over 60 minutes and cisplatin over 2 hours) for the first 3 days during each cycle of therapy, and then therapy will be repeated every 3 to 4 weeks.