My mum is now undergoing chemo treatment of Folfox and Avastin. She has just completed her second treatment. As she has serious diarrhea last time, the onco offered her a discount of 85% so the chemo drugs being used this time has been reduced.
However, my mum's arm has been red and a bit swollen this time. The onco thus asked my mum to consider inserting a port. She is quite scared and discomfort for the idea because it seems that the port needs to be carefully taken care e.g. during bath etc. And it is not sure where the port will be placed as I noticed most of the cases shown on the Internet are located in chest, which further worried us.
I know there are members here using port for chemo and find it acceptable. I would like to ask a few questions:
1. Where does the port being placed? The chest or it depends?
2. How should the skin being taken care of or what does it feel as the port is under skin?
3. Is the port a faucet or just a tube?
4. As my mum is a stage4 patient, does that mean the port will not be removed?
Thank you very much for reading/answering my doubts.