Mama,

Personally, of course I am no Oncologist, but I would be VERY hard pressed to rads only. The rationale for chemo along with rads is makes a lot of sense. That is, platinum based chemo acts as a radio-sensitizer, meaning it makes the radiation more effective and the chemo in the larger doses may mop up any stray cancer cells outside the rad zones.

I also had induction chemo with TPF (Taxotere, Cisplatin, and 5FU). This triple cocktail is VERY powerful and generally kills all microscopic cancer cells as well as reduces the primary cancer too.