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ESMO management and treatment adapted recommendations in the COVID-19 era: gynaecological malignancies
Ilaria Colombo # 1 , Eleonora Zaccarelli # 2 , Maria Del Grande 1 , Federica Tomao 2 , Francesco Multinu 2 , Ilaria Betella 2 , Jonathan A Ledermann 3 , Antonio Gonzalez-Martin 4 , Cristiana Sessa 1 , Nicoletta Colombo 5
Abstract
The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and its related disease (COVID-19) has required an immediate and coordinate healthcare response to face the worldwide emergency and define strategies to maintain the continuum of care for the non-COVID-19 diseases while protecting patients and healthcare providers.
The dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented risk especially for the more vulnerable populations. To manage patients with cancer adequately, maintaining the highest quality of care, a definition of value-based priorities is necessary to define which interventions can be safely postponed without affecting patients' outcome.
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) has endorsed a tiered approach across three different levels of priority (high, medium, low) incorporating information on the value-based prioritisation and clinical cogency of the interventions that can be applied for different disease sites.
Patients with gynaecological cancer are at particular risk of COVID-19 complications because of their age and prevalence of comorbidities. The definition of priority level should be based on tumour stage and histology, cancer-related symptoms or complications, aim (curative vs palliative) and magnitude of benefit of the oncological intervention, patients' general condition and preferences.
The decision-making process always needs to consider the disease-specific national and international guidelines and the local healthcare system and social resources, and a changing situation in relation to COVID-19 infection.
These recommendations aim to provide guidance for the definition of deferrable and undeferrable interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic for ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancers within the context of the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines.
CITA DEL ARTÍCULO ESMO Open . 2020 Jul;5(Suppl 3):e000827. doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000827
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