Practical cancer chemotherapy: venous access and extravasation.
Cancer chemotherapy is becoming more effective, and therefore more widely used. Treatment is frequently begun at a cancer centre and continued by the patient's family physician in the home town. In larger centres, trained intravenous or chemotherapy nurses may be available, but in many areas the physician may not have such assistance. This article reviews the intravenous delivery of cancer chemotherapy and the procedure to follow if accidental extravasation should occur.