PTC CLINIC
Information for Healthcare Professionals

Services and Possibilities Offered by the Center of Excellence

1. COUNSELING FOR PROFESSIONALS

The Center of Excellence provides counseling for relevant specialists. Consultations are provided mostly in situations when radiotherapy indication is considered or to choose an optimal radiation method. The response time is 5 business days. If you are a doctor and you are interested in counseling services, please contact us at poradna.lymfom@ptc.cz. Please provide a medical report for the case being consulted and send up-to-date images. Consultation is also possible in English.

2. OPEN LYMPHOMA INDICATION SEMINAR

If you are a doctor and you are interested in consulting a possible indication of a patient with lymphoma, the Center of Excellence offers the opportunity to participate in a multidisciplinary lymphoma indication seminar, which takes place at the PTC once a week. For such participation, prior personal agreement is required electronically or by the telephone number provided. In general, relevant scan image documentation (ePACS available) and epicrisis is required in order to provide a consult of the patient.

For preliminary orientation, we inform you that proton therapy is suitable especially for patients with:

• mediastinal disease, where the irradiated area (the original disease site) is located in the area below the left coronary artery, i.e. below Th7 level,
• young women with axillar disease, where proton radiotherapy can spare the breast gland and thus reduces the risk of developing a secondary breast carcinoma,
• highly pre-treated patients (after several types of chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant), who are at a higher risk of developing radiation toxicity (esp. lung, cardiovascular toxicity and bone marrow disease),
• patients with localized disease which has not responded to systematic treatment (esp. PET positive mediastinal residual) and where the total radiation dose needs to be increased,
• patients after previous radiotherapy within the same or surrounding area.

Proton radiotherapy cannot be indicated in patients:

• with a pacemaker – absolute contraindication,
• with the presence of a larger amount of metal at the planned irradiation site.

3. FOR PATIENTS AND THE PUBLIC:

If the hematooncologist has recommended radiation treatment to you or your loved one, and you would like to consult about the different possibilities of irradiation, please do not hesitate to contact the client service at PTC via email at patient@ptc.cz or via phone at +420 222 999 000.