The aim of the Center of Excellence is to deepen the professional and scientific cooperation in the Czech Republic as well as abroad, rationalize indication of proton radiotherapy for lymphoma patients, inform about the possibilities and results of scientific activities and to share results and experience of lymphoma treatment with professionals, doctors of other specialities as well as with patients and the general public. This interdisciplinary workplace is directed by Dr. Kateřina Dědečková, leading specialist in proton radiotherapy of malignant lymphomas in the Czech Republic.
More than 300 patients with lymphoma diagnosis have been treated at the Prague Proton Therapy Center. The very first patient was treated in spring 2013. Since then, a unique group of patients treated with proton radiotherapy using the pencil beam scanning technique, has been established.
In April 2015, the PTC started to use a treatment combination with the deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH) method for patients with mediastinal disease. This technology is one of the gentlest radiation options for mediastinal tumours. In some cases, the treatment is further combined with attention to other movements unrelated to breathing, such as major blood vessels pulsation or heart movements (rescanning). These options secure safe irradiation of problematic areas, such as the mediastinum and the upper abdominal area (below liver). Such technologically advanced treatment is offered by only a few proton centres worldwide. Thanks to this experience of ours, we are a member of the international ILROG team that has created consensual recommendations for proton radiotherapy for mediastinal lymphomas in adults.
PTC doctors and physicists cooperate on local and foreign recommendations for lymphoma treatment, they lecture on local and international congresses and take part in clinical studies related to lymphoma radiotherapy, such as analysis of dosimetric and radiobiological models comparing modern technologies of photon radiotherapy with proton radiotherapy.
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