Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind ...

It was then that Hale vowed to "take control of as much as I could" — including her perspective on her chemotherapy port. "I wasn't really self-conscious of having the port because that was the ...