Daniel, there is a recent study, quoted here on the forum, purportedly showing there is no benefit to concurrent chemo. My decidedly unscientific thinking, however, kept going back to the long-term survivors who had chemo, so I wanted it too. You've heard of visualization, I am sure, and while that poison stuff was being pumped into my veins, I could "see" it attacking any stray cells that were not wanted. (One has a lot of time on one's hands while getting chemo.) To their credit, the ENT and the Rad Onc are both believers, as was the Med onc who supervised the drugs. I lost my hair, all my white cells, and was urpy some of the time, and I would do it all again if need be, but then I am a kind of all or nothing person anyway, so this schedule fit for me. Bottom line, there is "proof" either way about it being effective, so I lined up with the long-term folks (grin).
Joanna, long-term wanna be