Cancer patients affected by COVID-19: Experience from Milan, Lombardy

Gynecologic Oncology
Giorgio BoganiFrancesco Raspagliesi

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is continuing to spread. There are growing concerns on the impact of COVID-19 in cancer patients. Several papers reporting recommendations and guidelines are published. But few data on cancer patients affected by COVID-19 are available. This is a retrospective study including all consecutive patients affected by gynecological cancer who developed COVID-19. All patients were treated in an academic setting (in Milan, Lombardy, Italy) between February and March 2020. Overall, 355 patients had active treatment during the study period due to newly diagnosed or recurrent gynecological disease. Among those, 19 (5.3%) patients affected developed COVID-19. All patients were asymptomatic at the time of COVID-19 detection. Six patients were diagnosed before starting planned treatments; while the remaining 13 were diagnosed for COVID-19 after their started their treatments. Considering the first group of six patients, one patient died due to COVID-19 3 days after the diagnosis; while the other patients recovered from COVID-19 after a median of three weeks. The latter group of 13 patients (treatments started) included five patients who underwent surgery and eight patients who underwent chemotherapy. Focusing on five pati...Continue Reading

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Oct 12, 2020·Current Cardiology Reports·Nicolas L PalaskasAnita Deswal
Oct 21, 2020·Journal of Gynecologic Oncology·Giorgio BoganiFrancesco Raspagliesi
Sep 25, 2020·European Journal of Cancer : Official Journal for European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) [and] European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)·Kamal S SainiEvandro de Azambuja
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Dec 30, 2020·Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology·Giorgio BoganiFrancesco Raspagliesi
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