I have often wondered why my doctors didn't have me do any chemotherapy along with the radiation. I read that alot of people do, but I read all that after I completed radiation and felt a part of life again. There seem to be conflicting beliefs that it helps with head and neck cancer. My doctors were happy that my tumor in my jaw had not wrapped itself around anything, it was within my jaw, and only the node sitting up against the tumor showed any signs of cancer.....this cancer didn't show up on my CAT scan two weeks before surgery. My margins were clean, in fact the surgeon said they were large and clean. He said the radiation was my "insurance policy" to clean up anything microscopic left behind and that I didn't need chemo and I was put at a stage 4. He also said that if anything does re-occur it will be caught early so they will have a better chance dealing with it. What is everyones opinion on this thought??