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Relevance. Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (auto-HSCT) is an integral part of the treatment of patients with high-risk malignancies. However, carrying out the mobilization and collection of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) for patients weighing up to 15 kg is a complex task that requires a special approach and multidisciplinary interaction.The purpose of the study is to present the experience of collecting HSC in young children weighing up to 15 kg at the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of the Federal State Budgetary Institution N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Centre of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia.Materials and methods. The study included 30 patients weighing up to 15 kg who received treatment from January 2020 to May 2021 at the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of the Federal State Budgetary Institution N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Centre of Oncology, Ministry of Health of Russia. Median age was 30.6 (12–48) months, median body weight was 12.2 (7.8–15) kg. Apheresis in children weighing up to 15 kg was performed in the resuscitation and intensive care unit with the condition of pre-filling the cell separator circuit with a donor irradiated erythrocyte suspension to prevent hypovolemic complications. Thirty two apheresis was performed on a cell separator of the “Spectra Optia” type. To mobilize HSC, preparations of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor with the main active ingredient filgrastim were used.Results. Twenty eight HSC apheresis procedures were successful on the first attempt, 2 patients underwent repeated apheresis (a total of 32 procedures were performed). The median number of CD34+ cells obtained was 13.9 × 106/kg (0.04–92.0 × 106/kg), and the median apheresis duration was 251 (160–415) min. In 2 children during the procedure, an immediate organization of repeated venous access was required.Conclusions. Performing HSC apheresis in children weighing up to 15 kg and young children is a safe and effective technique with the participation of a multidisciplinary team. The apheresis algorithm proposed by us makes it possible to carry out a high-quality collection of CD34+ cells, sufficient for auto-HSCT.

About 20—25 % of all rhabdomyosarcomas in children are located in the urogenital zone. Due to introduction of new drug treatment protocols and the use of radiation therapy, most patients are cured by conservative methods. Only about 20 % of patients undergo surgical treatment, significant number of which are underwent organ-preserving operations. In those cases when the tumor has resistance to conservative treatment, when there is a residual tumor or relapse of the disease develops, radical organ-resecting operations are considered. Among the methods of urine derivation after cystectomy, preference is given to options that allow patients to carry out urine excretion voluntary: the formation of heterotopic reservoirs connected to the urethra or opening on the skin surfaces, which are constructed from different parts of the intestine. A clinical example of late postoperative complication is presented — a calculi formation within the pouch 7 years after radical cystprostatectomy with continent urinary diversion in a patient operated for urogenital rhabdomyosarcoma.

Relevance. The success of treatment of children with hepatoblastoma (HB) is associated primarily with the optimization of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. The introduction of a system of therapeutic definition of a risk group developed by the International Society for the Study of Liver Tumors in Children’s Hepatic tumors International Collaboration (CHIC) in patients with HB allows for effective risk stratification. Patients of the very low-risk group have a favorable prognosis and, unlike patients of other groups, they can perform surgery at the 1st stage, and children from the very low-risk group with a “pure” fetal version of the morphological structure of the tumor can be cured without chemotherapy – only by surgical method. This article presents an analysis of a series of observations of children with HB very low-risk.Methods and patients. A retrospective analysis of the data of 138 patients who received treatment at the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Centre of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of Russia from January 2006 to February 2018, all patients underwent examination in the following volume: computed tomography (CT) of the chest, ultrasound of the abdominal cavity and retroperitoneal space, CT and/or magnetic resonance imaging of the abdominal cavity with contrast enhancement. Serum levels of human chorionic gonadotropin and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) were measured. The prevalence of tumor lesions was retrospectively evaluated using the PRETEXT system (Pre-Treatment Extent of Disease, assessment of the prevalence of the tumor process before treatment, 2017 version). Based on the data obtained, 18 (13 %) patients with hypertension were identified in the very low-risk group using the CHIC stratification system. Of 18 (100 %) patients of the very low-risk group, 8 (44.4 %) received therapy in the interval from January 2006 to October 2010 according to the treatment protocols of the SIOPEL group. The treatment included a combination of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with delayed surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy. Since November 2010, the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology adopted a protocol for the treatment of children with hypertension, suggesting the possibility of performing surgical treatment at the 1 st stage in patients with a localized stage of the disease with the spread of PRETEXT I/II. From December 2010 to November 2018, 10 (55.6 %) patients from the very low-risk group were operated on at the 1 st stage. A tumor biopsy was not performed before the intervention. After a histological examination, 4 (22.2 %) patients had an epithelial variant of the structure of HB that did not meet the criteria of a “pure” fetal variant. He was given adjuvant chemotherapy according to the SIOPEL protocol. And in 6 (33.3 %) patients, according to the results of a morphological study, the HB structure variant was interpreted as a “pure” fetal variant. Further therapy in this group of patients was not performed. The analysis of the results of treatment of these 6 patients without the use of chemotherapy is presented in our article.Results. The average age of patients is 3.7 (1–6) years, the median is 3.7 ± 2.0. Boys/girls – 4:2. In all cases, there was an asymptomatic course of the disease, a neoplasm was detected by chance during an ultrasound scan. All children had an elevated AFP level in the range of 95.2–695 (286.0 ± 116.8) IU/ml. Distribution according to PRETEXT I/II – 2 (33.3 %) and 4 (66.7 %) patients, respectively. Patients did not have additional PRETEXT criteria and metastases. Surgical treatment was performed by the laparoscopic method in 2 of 6 patients. Scope of operation: right-sided hemihepatectomy – 3, left-sided – 1, bisegmentectomy – 1, atypical resection – 1. Lymphatic dissection in the area of the hepatoduodenal ligament was not performed. There were no complications of treatment and repeated surgical interventions. The radicalness of the intervention in the volume of R0 was confirmed by histological examination in all patients. Morphological examination in all cases revealed a “pure” fetal version of the structure of the tumor. All patients are alive without signs of relapse at follow-up periods of 14.7 to 59.2 (32.0 ± 18.7) months.Conclusion. Using the system of therapeutic stratification into risk groups CHIC allows you to effectively distinguish patients with very low-risk groups, and for some children with a “pure” fetal version of the histological structure of the tumor, only the surgical approach can be used for treatment. At the same time, the short observation period for the patients and their small number do not allow us to draw final conclusions and dictate the need for a multicenter study. It should be noted that this cohort of patients requires careful observance of the post-therapeutic observation algorithm.

О bjective is to evaluate the rate of bladder cancer in children and adolescents, characteristics of its histological variant, and treatment approaches. Materials and methods. A review of international literature on the problem of bladder cancer in children and adolescents as well as our own clinical observations of this pathology in 7 male patients aged 5–17 years in the period from 2012 to 2017 are presented. Results. According to the literature data and our own clinical observations, bladder cancer in children and adolescents is a rare pathology and it is a well-differentiated transitional cell carcinoma, localized, with favorable prognosis and rare recurrence. Treatment approach for bladder cancer in children and adolescents is the same as in adults, and usually is limited to transurethral resection of the bladder tumor. Conclusion. These observations serve as a reminder that bladder cancer can occur in children and adolescents, as well as in adults, which should elevate oncological vigilance among general practitioners.

The paper describes the personal experience with one-stage operations for bilateral nephroblastoma (BN) in children. In 2000 to 2012, the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Institute, performed one-stage surgical interventions in 21 (26.2 %) children with BN. Their age ranged from 10 months to 5 years. The one-stage surgery as bilateral nephrectomy was made in 9 children. Nephrectomy with one-stage resection of the contralateral kidney was carried out in 4 children; 4 patients underwent one-stage surgery as resection of one kidney and biopsy of the other and 4 patients had nephrectomy and biopsy of the second kidney. BN is a rare disease as suggested by the data available in the world literature; each new report on patients with BN is of great scientific and practical interest. The rate of BN is 4 to 10 % of all kidney cancers in children. Synchronous and metachronous kidney injuries are encountered in 5–7 and 2–3 % of cases, respectively. Bilateral renal involvement is more commonly diagnosed in younger children. The major peak incidence of BN occurs from ages 3 to 5 years. The disease is rarely diagnosed in children above 10 years. Boys and girls are equally frequently ill.

Some nontumor processes can resemble renal tumors both clinically and morphologically. Malformations in the kidneys can lead to that the latter preserve primitive renal tissue elements that can be mistaken for nephroblastic tumors. In their clinical practice, pediatric oncologists most frequently come across, among the tumor-like processes simulating nephroblastoma (NB), a massive renal blastema that is also known as nephroblastomatosis (NBM). The paper demonstrates that there is no unified notion of NBM in children and that of a need and options for treatment. It presents data on 37 patients with bilateral NB, the development of which NBM is responsible for. The morphological and radiological signs of NBM are given. The results of treatment in the patients are provided in relation to the extent of a tumor process and the concomitance of NBM and Wilms’ tumor. NBM is shown to be a self-limiting pretumor proliferative process that is characterized by a high NB risk. When the diagnosis of NBM is verified, the patient needs antitumor treatment.