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. 

You can have chemotherapy and other drugs and fluids into a portacath.

You can have chemotherapy and other drugs and fluids through a PICC line. 

Chemotherapy pumps are one of the ways you can have your chemotherapy. They allow you to have chemo in a controlled way.