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 ...

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 ...

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

Meet NXgenPort, a Saint Paul, Minnesota-based startup that’s looking to remotely monitor cancer patients in between doctor visits using a port catheter. NXgenPort, which presented today at ...

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.

ROACH: I had a port put in for chemotherapy. I have a red scar on my chest and a smaller one near my collarbone. None of the nurses have seen one placed in the neck before.

But there are ways to ease the pain. Patients could opt for the implanting of a chemo port, a device that is surgically put in the chest, or a PICC line (a peripherally inserted central catheter ...