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

• Published in: Ginekologia polska Vol. 91; no. 7; pp. 428 - 431
• Main Authors: Jach, Robert, Mazurec, Maciej, Trzeszcz, Martyna, Zimmer, Mariusz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Poland Wydawnictwo Via Medica 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Betacoronavirus; Cervical cancer; Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia - diagnosis; Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia - pathology; Cervix Uteri - pathology; Colposcopy - methods; Colposcopy - standards; Communicable Disease Control - methods; Communicable Disease Control - organization & administration; Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology; Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control; COVID-19; Diagnosis, Differential; Early Detection of Cancer - standards; Female; Gynecology; Humans; Pandemics; Pandemics - prevention & control; Pathophysiology; Patient Care Management - methods; Patient Care Management - standards; Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology; Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control; Poland - epidemiology; SARS-CoV-2; Secondary Prevention - methods; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Terminology; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - diagnosis; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - prevention & control; Poland; HPV testing; cervical cancer prevention; guidelines; selfsampling; cervical cytology; abnormal screening results; SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
• ISSN: 0017-0011; 2543-6767
• DOI: 10.5603/GP.2020.0103

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.