Hi Ed,
I was diagnosed just a few months before you and I didn't have chemo, just radiation. BUT, I also had extensive surgery and the radiation was for "clean up" my doctors called it. My margins were wide and clear and the lymphnode closest to my jaw had microscopic cancer, that is how it was put to me. Maybe that's why no chemo?? I've wondered also why some did and some did not.
Minnie

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.