Well I have no idea...

WC3

Through a stroke of bad luck, I ended up needing a neck x-ray.

Mind you, I have had two spine MRIs in the past few years, one about four months ago, a series of neck x-rays at the beginning of the year, and a PET/CT that imaged my neck before I started chemo therapy, five months ago, and I have looked at all of these images.

My recent neck x-ray came back with small soft tissue radiodensities near my vertebrae and the radiologists suggested a CT for further evaluation. I noticed these as well but didn't know what to make of them, and they do not show up on any of the previous imaging.

I am coming up on 5 weeks PFC of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and the cancer seems to have responded to it.

Can these calcifications be a result of the chemotherapy?

I've heard of cancer spreading and growing elsewhere during chemotherapy but does anyone know of this happening while the primary tumor shrinks?

I know breast cancer likes to grow in the lymph nodes, bones, lungs, liver, brain, parts of the vascular system and sometimes skin, but has anyone ever heard of it in the prevertebral soft tissue?

Like what could possibly just appear within four months in such a weird area?

WC3

I think I figured it out.