Funny, when I was treated, less than two years ago and my team of doctors at M.D. Anderson decided on chemo and radiation, ( which was part of a study ) my insurance company at first tried to claim that chemo for head and neck cancer was "experimental". I actually had to fight with the insurance company to convince them to cover the cisplatin and taxotere. Eventually they relented. From what I can tell it is almost a standard protocol. I never heard of IMRT, by the way, until I found OCF. My doctors never offered it as an option.

Danny G.

Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.