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Cancer		Adult Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Carcinoma; Malignancy; Neoplasm; Oncology; Tumor

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Chemotherapy Port for Cancer Treatment

This is a picture of my trusty chemotherapy port central line device used for eight months worth of chemo for Hodgkin s Disease aka Hodgkin Lymphoma A port is a surgically implanted device designed to save your arm veins from being burned from the inside out by chemotherapy Many people need to get them for treatment and have no clue what they look like I wanted to know what it was going to look like before I got mine and couldn t find a picture of a real person s port That s why I decided to share and I assume from the amount of views lots of people are curious My port resides about an inch under my collar bone on the left side of my chest This is what the port looks like when it is accessed and ready for use The nurse accesses the port with a butterfly or Huber needle My port is pediatric sized because my chest masses were too large to allow a full size adult port If you would like to see what a port looks like when it s not accessed for treatment go here <a href= http flickr com photos goellnitz 3333146681 in set 72157613799859126 >my port scar< a> I also have a picture of myself right after finishing my first chemo that shows <a href= http flickr com photos goellnitz 3277316449 in set 72157613799859126 >what the incisions looked liked< a> if you really want to see that for some reason By the way my face isn t all swelled up from the port procedure it swelled all up due to having SVC syndrome as a complication from Hodgkin s Disease If you d like to learn more about ports please visit my <a href= http hodgkindisease wordpress com 2008 02 01 ports >page about them< a> on my Hodgkin blog

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M D Anderson s Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma consists of 13 physicians 10 of whom see and treat patients with Hodgkin s and non Hodgkin lymphoma and three who evaluate patients with

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Each year thousands of people develop diseases such as leukemia Hodgkin s disease non Hodgkin s lymphoma and multiple myeloma that are treatable with bone marrow or blood

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VRC as the official symbol of unification for Hodgkin s Lymphoma VRC is working to promote tolerance by spreading awareness of Hodgkin s Through the distribution and sales of Violet Ribbon pins and merchandise VRC hopes to raise communication increase

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from Louisiana Marilyn is 55 and married with adult children She is a cancer survivor and has been a caregiver for both her mother and her father Welcome to the show Marilyn Marilyn Thank you Proud to be here Glenda Durham Your father was diagnosed with non Hodgkin s lymphoma of the brain in the spring of 1983 He was treated with chemotherapy and lived for a