Your best decision is to go to the cancer center and be seen by a team of cancer specialists. Chemo is not normally given alone unless is only for pallitive treatment. Chemo boosts radiation's effectiveness.

Only you along with yoru team of doctors can make this decision. Most radiation patients only go thru it once. Recently there have been several OC patients who have been undergoing a second round of radiation.

You are correct in reading its difficult going thru radiation. It can be done. If that is the path you choose, then just know yor age will help you get thru it much easier than others. It seems that the younger patients dont struggle as much. Dont forget the old saying we have around here "everybody is different". That phrase goes for treatments, recovery times, side effects and of course exactly where someone's OC was in their mouth or throat etc.

Best of luck.