Angela,

First, do not start treatment until you are totally totally comfortable with your plan. You have to trust your doctors and the prescribed plan; your life depends on this.

Chemo with rads is very common. The radiation is doing the cancer killing, the chemo is to help the radiation do its job. Concurrent chemo may kill of some micro cancer cells but no doctor is going to suggest that the chemo is there to kill any cancer cells.

Since the concurrent chemo is done to improve the radiation then why not do it? The downsides of chemo are much smaller when compared to the side effects, both short and long term of the radiation. Plus weekly dosing offers much less side effects.

Get a second opinion if you feel that will help. Do consider getting more opinions may just make the waters more muddy and certainly no guarantee it will result in a clear decision.

The tumor board being split is really not a bad thing per say. Each doctor has bias so in less clear cut cases their bias swings their opinion.

Doing both is safe and within the standard of care guidelines. If you feel like you want to do all that is possible to kill the beast and do all you can to kill it off then getting both is that path.

Sparing yourself some side effects of not having chemo seems a small price to spare for just the peace of mind you and your team gave it all the first time around.

Good luck
Don