Management of patients with ovarian cancer in the COVID-19 era

Giorgio Bogani; Jvan Casarin; Ciro Pinelli; Violante Di Donato; Sara Bosio; Simona Ruisi; Claudia Brusadelli; Rocco Guerrisi; Giuseppe Sarpietro; Antonino Ditto; Fabio Ghezzi; Francesco Raspagliesi

doi:10.1002/jso.26057

Management of patients with ovarian cancer in the COVID-19 era

J Surg Oncol. 2020 Aug;122(2):122-123. doi: 10.1002/jso.26057. Epub 2020 May 31.

Authors

Giorgio Bogani¹, Jvan Casarin², Ciro Pinelli², Violante Di Donato³, Sara Bosio^{1

4}, Simona Ruisi^{1

4}, Claudia Brusadelli^{1

2}, Rocco Guerrisi^{1

2}, Giuseppe Sarpietro^{1

5}, Antonino Ditto¹, Fabio Ghezzi², Francesco Raspagliesi¹

Affiliations

¹ Gynecologic Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy.
² Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
³ Department of Maternal and Child Health and Urological Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ospedale San Paolo, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Department of General Surgery and Medical Surgical Specialties, Gynecological Clinic University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

Abstract

At the beginning of 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads worldwide. Patients with ovarian cancer should be considered at high-risk of developing severe morbidity related to COVID-19. Most of them are diagnosed in advanced stages of disease, and they are fragile. Here, we evaluated the major impact of COVID-19 on patients with ovarian cancer, discussing the effect of the outbreak on medical and surgical treatment.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV; chemotherapy; ovarian cancer; surgery.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Female
Gynecologic Surgical Procedures / methods
Gynecologic Surgical Procedures / standards
Humans
Infection Control / methods
Infection Control / standards
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control
Laparoscopy / methods
Laparoscopy / standards
Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery*
Ovarian Neoplasms / virology
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
SARS-CoV-2
Surgical Oncology / methods*
Surgical Oncology / standards