The effects of chemo and radiation can take months or years to surface. As a survivor, I have the scars to prove it.

A port, or port-a-cath, is a type of central venous catheter (CVC) that allows healthcare professionals to access a large vein in the chest. It helps protect the smaller veins in your arms from ...

Both of the looks mentioned had a textured front, which could’ve been a strategic way to hide the outline of her port on her chest. If you need a refresher, she donned a white Jenny Packham ...

UK Kate opens up about chemotherapy port as she shares experiences with patients The princess spoke about how she was encouraged to keep positive during her treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

The Princess of Wales has shared her experience of her “really tough” chemotherapy, which she revealed was delivered via a “port” to which she became rather attached. Kate announced she is in ...

Talking to Katherine Field, 45, who was wearing a cold cap during her chemotherapy to preserve her hair, the princess gestured to her own arm and chest to discuss the port mechanism used to ...

The port can be felt under the skin or a small bump seen, but patients can go home with a portacath in place, and it avoids the need to have needles in the arm during each course of treatment.

Metcalfe, 41, said: "This story is incredibly important to me. When I was aged 15 I lost my dad to bowel cancer and it has impacted my life hugely. "I have never taken my own health for granted ...

Kiley Donovan, a former writer, said Finch strapped bandages to her chest designed to resemble a chemotherapy port. Finch produced more than 150 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, but the traumatic ...

Chemo Can Leave Scars One way to administer chemotherapy for ovarian cancer is through a port placed in the chest. Survivor Marecya Burton was reluctant to have the port, because she worried she’d be ...