I was told that if I just had radiation, I could decide to not have a PEG but, had I been treated at Dana Farber, they required it for rad and chemo combined (as mouth pain and swallowing often are much worse). I know it isn't entirely true, but many people on this board who didn't have a PEG also didn't have concurrent chemo with their rad. You don't say if you are having chemo, Kyle, but if you are not I would think it much more liekly you can make it through the entire treatment without it.

Nelie