With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

WHEN Tamsyn Gerrits woke up one morning with a swollen belly, she assumed it was just bloating. But what started as mild ...

Kate Middleton’s health troubles have sent her “to hell and back” over the past 18 months, and she is “fortunate to be even ...

Rozlyn Khan celebrates the removal of her chemo port, marking a significant milestone in her battle against Stage 4 breast cancer. Despite enduring intense treatments, including chemotherapy ...

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind, don ...

James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images. Both of the looks mentioned had a textured front, which could’ve been a strategic way to hide the outline of her port on her chest.

Elsewhere during her visit, Kate shared more details on her chemo, including that she had a port to administer the therapy. “I got so attached to it,” the Princess said of her port.

Kate Middleton connects with a cancer patient during a visit, sharing her emotional attachment to a chemotherapy port. Pop Culture & Art January 15, 2025 ... Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images ...

Princess Kate shared in March 2024 that she was undergoing treatment for cancer, stepped outside of the spotlight to focus on her health and shared in September that she completed chemotherapy.

The port can be felt under the skin or a small bump seen, but patients can go home with a portacath in place, and it avoids the need to have needles in the arm during each course of treatment.

The Princess of Wales has shared her experience of her “really tough” chemotherapy, which she revealed was delivered via a “port” to which she became rather attached. Kate announced she is ...