Hello OCF patient forum members. I was diagnosed with SCC in the left tonsil and stillar area on 10-16-06 and I am to begin chemo treatments 11-27-06. They decided to give me a shot at a turkey dinner. I am being treated at Emory University Winship Cancer Institute. I am going to be in a trial study consisting of only chemo for now. They think the chemo will shrink the 2 nodes and tumor area to where I should not need to have radiation. Worst case scenerio is I start a radiation regimin if they don't shrink. It consist of 3 chemo treatments, 21 days apart with Docetaxel, Cisplatin, and 5fluorouracil. Has anyone been or going through this study? My doctors are very optimistic about this and from what little I can find out online there seems to be some sucess coming out of this. If nobody has gone through this study, does anyone have any input? I am going to beat this either way cause I have plans for the summer and this won't stop me.