Chris, even if it is just 1% increase in survival, it is worth taking. I also had cisplatin along with radiation to treat my tonsil cancer. My tumors in tonsil and neck lymph nodes were far larger than yours.The use of cisplatin was not an option but a must for me.In fact , in Hong Kong, the combination of both chemo and radiation has become the recommended treatment recently. For side effects, of course there are some but different people may react differently. I didn't need any surgery after the chemo-radiotherapy because they had killed all my cancer cells already.

Karen