The port is a good option if you need treatments regularly or over a long period of time. Implantable ports are about the size of a quarter. They have a round, oval, or triangle shape. You can see ...

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 ...

Discussion: Port systems allow easy and safe venous access and facilitate the treatment of chronically ill patients. In the face of growing numbers of patients with implanted port systems ...