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Matthew, thanks for responding, glad to hear your story, and I hope you are well. I’m not sure how to post an update so all can see, so I will say here that we got biopsy results and it is not cancer (once again, stunned by unexpected news). It was a fungal infection that he has apparently recovered from, nodules are residual granulomas. No treatment needed, just a follow up scan in 6 months. So appreciate your support, thank you for sharing your story.

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@lbucky, you figured it out! We can all see this and your next reply. Great news! That's why I recommend NOT consulting Dr. Google. It's a great way to scare yourself silly. I know. I did it after my first PET scan.

Your husband's results are also why expanding lung cancer screening is a more complicated issue than it would seem. While we all want to detect lung cancer as early as possible, the fact is that if we dramatically increased screening, we'd also increase false positives and cause a lot of expensive and invasive testing. At the World Conference, I attended a session that made the case for more screening and a session that recommended against it. And these are the best oncologists and oncology nurses in the world.

It's always important to remember that the doctors are conducting a test because they don't know. As you've seen, it can always turn out to be something else, even when the Internet makes the word "spiculated" sound scary.

I'm glad your husband has already recovered from his fungal infection and for the fact that you're not both facing a cancer diagnosis!