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Why is there pain near injection site of port for chemo treatment?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Jul 6 3:50pm | Replies (8)
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@charlotte12

Sorry to read that your cancer returned, and you needed more treatments. Do you get weekly blood work done?
Or did you get CT scan, MRI, Ultrasound? On which side of the chest is the port, does it matter? Does a surgeon
do it?

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val64 | @val64 | Jul 6 3:50pm

I have endometrial cancer, so the standard of care surveillance after my first chemo was a pelvic exam every three months. This didn't work. I found the recurrence myself 2 weeks after being declared all clear on a pelvic exam. You'll probably have regular blood work and CT scans, which should work better.

My port is on the right, although nurses ask me which side it's on, so it must be possible to put it on either side.

At the hospital I go to, ports are put in and removed by interventional radiologists. They do LOTS of them, assembly line fashion. I've actually been very impressed with all the interventional radiologists I've encountered, both for this (3x) and for a CT-guided biopsy that I had done.

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