Isidoro Di Carlo • Roberto Biffi
Editors

2012

Almost 30 years have passed since the first TIVAD insertion, and now approximately one million TIVADs are implanted each year throughout the world. Since their first clinical use, these devices have had an enormous and incommensurable impact on quality of life, especially in cancer patients, by offering them the opportunity of continuous venous access and allowing more reliable and effective treatment.