Speaking up during cancer treatment helped one patient manage side effects, address insurance issues and stay productive ...

I believe that my chronic worrying saved my life. I had nine more years until I was due for a routine colonoscopy—I wouldn’t have made it nine more years, based on the stage my cancer had ...

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 ...

“He had double chemo, and he had a port, a pick, a colostomy and a catheter and he was 19 months old,” said Tanya Kennedy Gill, Christian Kennedy’s mom.

A chemo port differs from a peripherally inserted central catheter (also known as a PICC line), which is implanted into a vein in your arm and used for a shorter period of time. This article explains ...

cme Central Venous Port Systems as an Integral Part of Chemotherapy Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108 (9): 147-54. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2011.0147 ...

An implantable port is also known as a portacath or subcutaneous port. A thin tube called a catheter is attached to a small reservoir called a port. It can be used to give chemotherapy or medicine ...

An interventional radiology team of a private hospital removed a dislodged chemo port catheter tube that was stuck inside the heart of a 39-year-old man who was treated for pleomorphic sarcoma.

If you’re having chemotherapy for cancer, it’s easier and less painful to get your treatments through one of these gadgets, which you might hear called a port or port-a-cath. Find out how it ...

Needle Safety Intravenous chemotherapy is given through a needle and catheter, which must be removed at the end of treatment. The needle is in contact with your chemotherapy drugs and your blood ...