How to Disconnect Your Port at Home | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Watch Susanne, a Dana-Farber clinical nurse specialist, teach Alyssa, a leukemia patient, to disconnect her portacath from medications given at home. Like Alyssa, many cancer patients have a central line, which makes it easier to receive medications such as chemotherapy, and have blood tests. One common type of central line is a port (portacath), which is inserted on the upper chest, under the skin.