Um yeah don't sweat it yet or really at all. PET's so close after treatment come up hot all the time, and the uptake on the biggest node is only a 2.7 which is just above what they consider hypermetabolic (2.5). I had a scan 6 months out that came back hot with several spots at 2.8 uptake and the next scan came back clear...that was over 2 years ago.

Also false positives come up on those roughly 1/3 of the time. It's new to you so I remember how difficult it was to get that news and how I felt...now I just brush that off. If the scan comes back hot again in the same spots, get it biopsied and don't believe it's cancer until the pathology report says it is. My money's on false positive.

Keep your chin up

Eric

Last edited by EricS; 10-12-2011 11:13 PM. Reason: always spelling

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