More positive attitude and less symptom burden for male smokers with lung cancer. Role of bone scan in routine practice for early recognition of bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws (ONJ): ...

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 ...

Intravascular catheterization access for injection and sampling is one of the most common experimental surgical procedures.Catheters and ports have been designed to reduce the problems of occlusion, ...

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 ...

Flushing of port-a-caths for cancer patients is now also taking place in certain health centres, Health Minister chris Fearne has said. A port-a-cath system consists of two parts, the port (reservoir) ...

Seventy-nine patients (83%) had a Groshong CVC (Bard Access System, Salt Lake City, UT), and 16 (17%) had a Port-a-Cath device (Bard Access System). All patients received oral warfarin at a dose of 1 ...