Indications for venous access in oncology - recommendations of national professional societies and current state in the Czech Republic.

Background: The aim of the paper is to present the current recommendations and indications of venous access in oncology which reflect and recognize the opinions of national and international professional societies. It focuses exclusively on the indications of intravenous catheter placement for anticancer treatment, such as medium-term and long-term venous accesses.

Materials And Methods: The survey results obtained from a national questionnaire of 24 oncology centers identified the current situation in the Czech Republic.

Extravasation (paravasation) of chemotherapy drugs - updated recommendations (2020) for standard care in the Czech Republic from the cooperation of the Supportive Care Group of the Czech Society for Oncology, Czech Society for Hematology, Oncology Section of the Czech Nurses Association and the Society for Ports and Permanent Catheters.

Backgrounds: Extravasation (paravasation) of chemotherapy drugs is a very significant complication. Preventive and therapeutic interventions reduce the risk of the complication or the extent of its consequences. A working group of authors from expert groups prepared recommendations for standard care.

Aggressive multimodal therapy may prolong disease-free survival in recurrent primary retroperitoneal embryonal carcinoma.

Introduction: Primary retroperitoneal extragonadal tumours relapsing after initial chemotherapy have a poor prognosis.

Presentation Of The Case: We report a case of primary retroperitoneal embryonal carcinoma in a patient with negative open testes biopsy. After the first line of chemotherapy (4 cycles BEP) secondary surgery with extirpation of a retroperitoneal residual mass was performed.

[Familiar Mediterranean fever in Czech Republic].

Familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a well defined autosomal recessive disease occurring mostly in Mediterranean regions. Here we present the experience from one center from Czech Republic, where we follow 4 families with patients with genetically proven FMF. Three out of these 4 families cluster to one limited region in Moravia, in the heart of Europe, without any linkage to Mediterranean origin.

Radiotherapy in the treatment of epididymal adenocarcinoma - case report.

Background: Primary epididymal carcinoma is an extremely rare disease with a bad prognosis. We describe the first report of radiotherapy for definitive treatment of such a tumour.

Case Report: A 35-year-old man with a tumour of the epididymis underwent orchiectomy and elective retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy.