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How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy
Background: Since February 2020, the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy has induced the government to call for lockdown of any activity apart from primary needs, and changing the lives of each of us. All that has dramatically impacted the management of patients affected by cancer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36836474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm13020240 |
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author | Della Corte, Luigi Cafasso, Valeria Boccia, Dominga Morra, Ilaria De Angelis, Carmine De Placido, Sabino Giampaolino, Pierluigi Di Carlo, Costantino Bifulco, Giuseppe |
author_facet | Della Corte, Luigi Cafasso, Valeria Boccia, Dominga Morra, Ilaria De Angelis, Carmine De Placido, Sabino Giampaolino, Pierluigi Di Carlo, Costantino Bifulco, Giuseppe |
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description | Background: Since February 2020, the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy has induced the government to call for lockdown of any activity apart from primary needs, and changing the lives of each of us. All that has dramatically impacted the management of patients affected by cancer. Patients with vulvar cancer (VC) represent a particularly frail population because they are elderly and affected by multiple comorbidities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical impact of the SARS-CoV-2 infection on VC patients in terms of delay or impossibility of carrying out the scheduled treatment. Methods: The medical records of patients affected by vulvar tumors, referred to “DAI Materno-Infantile” of AOU Federico II of Naples between February 2020 and January 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. The presence of a positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in nasopharyngeal swab defined the positivity to SARS-CoV-2. Results: Twenty-four patients with VC were analyzed and scheduled for treatment. The median age was 70.7 years (range: 59–80). Seven (29.2%) patients were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection: In three (42.8%) patients, the treatment was delayed with no apparent consequences, in four (57.2%), the treatment was delayed or changed due to cancer progression and, of these four, one died due to respiratory complications of COVID-19, and one died due to oncologic disease progression. Conclusion: COVID-19 caused, in most cases, significant delays in oncologic treatments and high mortality in our series of patients affected by VC. |
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spelling | pubmed-99679072023-02-27 How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy Della Corte, Luigi Cafasso, Valeria Boccia, Dominga Morra, Ilaria De Angelis, Carmine De Placido, Sabino Giampaolino, Pierluigi Di Carlo, Costantino Bifulco, Giuseppe J Pers Med Article Background: Since February 2020, the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Italy has induced the government to call for lockdown of any activity apart from primary needs, and changing the lives of each of us. All that has dramatically impacted the management of patients affected by cancer. Patients with vulvar cancer (VC) represent a particularly frail population because they are elderly and affected by multiple comorbidities. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical impact of the SARS-CoV-2 infection on VC patients in terms of delay or impossibility of carrying out the scheduled treatment. Methods: The medical records of patients affected by vulvar tumors, referred to “DAI Materno-Infantile” of AOU Federico II of Naples between February 2020 and January 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. The presence of a positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in nasopharyngeal swab defined the positivity to SARS-CoV-2. Results: Twenty-four patients with VC were analyzed and scheduled for treatment. The median age was 70.7 years (range: 59–80). Seven (29.2%) patients were diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection: In three (42.8%) patients, the treatment was delayed with no apparent consequences, in four (57.2%), the treatment was delayed or changed due to cancer progression and, of these four, one died due to respiratory complications of COVID-19, and one died due to oncologic disease progression. Conclusion: COVID-19 caused, in most cases, significant delays in oncologic treatments and high mortality in our series of patients affected by VC. MDPI 2023-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9967907/ /pubmed/36836474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm13020240 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Della Corte, Luigi Cafasso, Valeria Boccia, Dominga Morra, Ilaria De Angelis, Carmine De Placido, Sabino Giampaolino, Pierluigi Di Carlo, Costantino Bifulco, Giuseppe How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title | How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title_full | How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title_fullStr | How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title_short | How SARS-CoV-2 Infection Impacts the Management of Patients with Vulvar Cancer: Experience in a Third-Level Hospital of Southern Italy |
title_sort | how sars-cov-2 infection impacts the management of patients with vulvar cancer: experience in a third-level hospital of southern italy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9967907/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36836474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm13020240 |
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