Gemcitabine (Gemsar) was subjectively experienced as significantly worse than cisplatin by the speaker.

“started gemsar and you know everybody had said all these terrible things about cisplatin and gemsar was 10 times worse everyone was like you'll be a breeze gemsar is a breeze compared to cisplatin you you are really the exact opposite of everybody because yeah i mean we used to tell patients gems are is it's non-chemo yeah yeah everybody tolerates gems are i can still remember sitting because i was too feeling too crappy to drive my mother driving to pick me up to take me to chemo one day sitting on my front porch and throwing up”