From pain to policy: Improving endometriosis awareness, diagnosis, and treatment

Key Points

• The aim is to address gaps in awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of endometriosis.
• Review of existing literature on endometriosis awareness and treatment
• Analysis of funding patterns for endometriosis research
• Examination of the disease's recognition as a systemic condition
• Endometriosis is vastly underdiagnosed and inadequately funded.
• There are significant delays in diagnosis due to lack of awareness.
• Recognition of endometriosis as a systemic disease could improve treatment approaches.

Abstract