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 ...

Care teams often implant a chemo port into patients with cancer to provide easy access for blood draws and to deliver treatments such as chemotherapy and antibiotics. Here, as part of its Heal at Home ...

How soon you can start chemotherapy after having your port placed can depend on certain factors, including the urgency in beginning treatment and your recovery following port insertion.

Chemo Port, a novel cancer treatment facility for ... It enabled doctors to treat a larger number of patients with less man power and facilitates ‘day care chemotherapy’, he said.

"I’m really excited,” said Isabella, 19, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor in October 2023 It’s the home stretch for Isabella Strahan as she gets her chemotherapy port removed after ...

A team of doctors of the Advanced Cardiac Institute (ACI) at the Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Memorial Medical College Hospital here removed a trapped chemo port (pipe) from the heart of a patient.

DEAR DR. 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. Was mine put ...