Does anyone know what kind of chemo is typically delivered via a port in the chest? My dad had a 2nd surgery recently, after Temodar failed to help curb regrowth of what started out as a mixed glioma level III and is now GBM IV--and now his chemo doctor wants to admit him to the hospital to administer a new chemo regimen via a chest port.
Wouldn't you know it, this was the ONE doctor appointment I did NOT go along for in 12 months of this nightmare. So I'm trying to understand what treatment this might be, without having been there to hear the doctor talk about it.
As best my stepmom could describe it to me, there would be 3 drugs involved...2 the first day to get the body ready to work with the 3rd drug, which would go into the vein in the leg and threaded up to the brain on the 2nd day.
They haven't decided yet if he will agree to go on with this. He is really weary of feeling horrible and he isn't sure it's worth it anymore. I don't want to push my opinions on him--he is the one who's suffering--but I am feeling underinformed about this kind of chemo.