Overview. At Matawan Regional High School, students have the opportunity to take Advanced PlacementÂ® course work and exams. The APÂ® participation rate at Matawan Regional High School is 28 percent. The student body makeup is 51 percent male and 49 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 31 percent. Matawan Regional High School is the only high school in the Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District.
Download this information. A port-a-cath is an IV (intravenous) catheter that is placed under the skin in a patient who requires frequent administration of chemotherapy, blood transfusions, antibiotics, intravenous feeding, or blood draws.
About a week after surgery, they called with the staging and treatment plan. First, I had to be scheduled to have a port put in for the chemo, so that took place about 2 weeks after surgery. Then, a week later, I began chemo. So, in total, it was about 3.5 weeks from surgery to chemo, with surgery for the port in the middle of that. Not much time to rest in between procedures. I guess we can't give the cancer time to spread, so that's why the urgency.