A venous access port placement procedure will allow for easier administration of chemotherapy and blood collection. Chemotherapy can be harsh on the veins of the arms and hands. It can be inconvenient ...
Quality improvement project to reduce inpatient chemotherapy usage on a solid tumor oncology service. Mean interval between IR consult order and port placement.
The aim of the study was to describe simultaneous laparoscopic adrenalectomy and laparoscopic nephron-sparing surgery, to discuss the details of a convenient laparoscopic approach and the way of port ...
A woman with ovarian cancer explains why she was reluctant to get a port put in and why she ultimately went forward with it. “Somehow, I felt that if I got the port, I was giving in to the cancer,” ...