Chemotherapy into your vein (intravenous chemotherapy)

Intravenous chemotherapy means having treatment into a vein. You have it either as an injection or a drip.

You can have chemotherapy drugs into a small tube called a cannula.

You can have chemotherapy into the bloodstream through a long flexible plastic tube called a central line.

A portacath is a small chamber that sits under your skin. It’s attached to a long plastic tube that goes into a large vein close to your heart.

A PICC line (peripherally inserted central catheter) is a type of central line. You can have chemotherapy and other drugs through it.

Chemotherapy pumps give a controlled amount of drugs very slowly into your bloodstream.