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My oncologist didn't offer me the choice of port or no port. She sent me to the surgeon and I had the port put in on the upper left chest and the next day started my chemo. When I had my surgery the nurses were having trouble accessing my veins so I told them I had a port that they could probably use. They had to get an oncology nurse to access the port. After that everything went fine. The only thing I don't like about the port is when you touch it it gives me a weird feeling - lets you know that there really is a foreign object in your chest.
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Kate
Stage IIIC Diagnosed Oct 25, 2005 (age 58)
ER/PR-, HER2+++, grade 3, Ploidy/DNA index: Aneuploid/1.61, S-phase: 24.2%
Neoadjunct chemo: 4 A/C; 4 Taxatore
Bilateral mastectomy June 8, 2006
14 of 26 nodes positive
Herceptin June 22, 2006 - April 20, 2007
Radiation (X35) July 24-September 11, 2006
BRCA1/BRCA2 negative
Stage IV lung mets July 13, 2007 - TCH
Single brain met - August 6, 2007 -CyberKnife
Oct 2007 - clear brain MRI and lung mets shrinking.
March 2008 lung met progression, brain still clear - begin Tykerb/Xeloda/Ixempra
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