I'm sure people who newly find your forum often inundate... me again.

When I had my endoscopy this week, I was also fitted with a 'port-a-cath' - remembering I'm receiving my treatment in France. It's a tube that will be used for the erbitux treatment, direct into a vein, can also be used for other intraveinous things, I think, but I'm not sure if it's the same thing as a PEG tube, please?

Hey Mop,

Me again too. No, they're not the same.

quote:

Under the skin, the port has a septum through which drugs can be injected and blood samples can be drawn many times, usually with less discomfort for the patient than a more typical "needle stick".

Wiki Entry for Port

Here's the results for entering 'peg feeding' in Google. Lots of info there!

Google results

Take care,

Mimi

Thank you, Mimi! and with such a French name, how can you not be here