Possible deferral of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for patients with abnormal screening tests results in cervical cancer secondary prevention in current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic Interim guidelines of the Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and the Polish Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathophysiology

Ginekol Pol. 2020;91(7):428-431. doi: 10.5603/GP.2020.0103.

Abstract

The Polish Society of Gynecologists and Obstetricians and Polish Society of Colposcopy and Cervical Pathophysiology Interim Guidelines goal at aiding gynecologists in providing a cervical cancer prevention care during the evolving SARS-CoV-2 pan-demic. Presented guidelines were developed on a review of limited data and updated when new relevant publications were revealed. Timing for deferrals of diagnostic-therapeutic procedures were mostly covered in the guidelines. Also, a support for the existing Polish recommendations on abnormal screening results in a subject of minor and major screening abnor-malities terminology were given. The guidelines are obligatory for the specified COVID-19 pandemic period only and they might be changed depending on the new available evidence.

Keywords: HPV testing; SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; abnormal screening results; cervical cancer prevention; cervical cytology; guidelines; selfsampling.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Cervix Uteri / pathology*
  • Colposcopy* / methods
  • Colposcopy* / standards
  • Communicable Disease Control / methods
  • Communicable Disease Control / organization & administration
  • Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
  • Coronavirus Infections* / prevention & control
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Early Detection of Cancer* / standards
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Pandemics* / prevention & control
  • Patient Care Management / methods
  • Patient Care Management / standards
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
  • Pneumonia, Viral* / prevention & control
  • Poland / epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Secondary Prevention / methods
  • Uterine Cervical Dysplasia* / diagnosis
  • Uterine Cervical Dysplasia* / pathology
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms* / diagnosis
  • Uterine Cervical Neoplasms* / prevention & control