key: cord-0750168-wfql1gs5
authors: Chen, Yeshan; Li, Guiling
title: Gynecological malignancies with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection during the convalescence of outbreak
date: 2020-04-29
journal: Gynecol Oncol
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.04.709
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doc_id: 750168
cord_uid: wfql1gs5

• COVID-19 has become a global pandemic. • Gynecologic malignancies with lung metastasis should be alert to asymptomatic infection. • Gynecologic malignancies with asymptomatic COVID-19 can be controlled under strict measures.

J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 2 The new coronavirus disease , which first reported in China at the end of 2019, has become a global pandemic [1] . With the joint efforts of medical works around the country, the epidemic has been well controlled.

Recently, there is an increasing concern on asymptomatic COVID-19 carriers.

Two case series reported cancer patients were at a higher risk of the severe adult respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection than general communities [2, 3] . Herein, we reported two asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 patients suffered from gynecological malignancies from a tertiary cancer center in epicenter. Recently, a growing body of reports has witnessed a highly infectivity of asymptomatic carrier, there are fears of the resurgence of COVID-19 [4, 5] . 

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