I suspect your husband was also given prophylactic radiation to the upper chest area, as I was, as insurance against metastasis. That can cause inflammation by itself, which will light up on PET. Also, the Midwest is fertile area for fungal and other processes that show up as inflammatory processes in the lungs.

It looks like my nodule was probably one of the same ones identified back in 2006, and is unchanged. Haven't heard to the contrary from the thoracic doc, who said he would call if something needed to be looked at further.

It's tough, but hang in there. Once you go through the cancer experience, everything seems to raise the specter of cancer. Lots of other things go on in the human body, and sometimes we forget that.