What Is Endometriosis?

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The average statistic that always gets thrown around is like eight to 12 years for a woman to get diagnosed with endometriosis. But i don't even think thereis statistics about how long it takes for transgentert people to get diagnosed. The ways to diagnose it are you have to have surgery, ot. Some patients have very little pain, actually, with even a lot of disease. So we don't really understand the relationship between the appearance of indemetriosis and the symptoms that accompany it.

This common chronic condition — where tissue similar to what grows inside the uterus grows elsewhere in the body — is barely understood. So why is a condition so prevalent and painful still so unknown? It has a lot to do with who gets to ask research questions.

Correction, August 18: An earlier version of this episode implied that the tissue involved in endometriosis is the same as the endometrium, which lines the uterus. It is similar tissue, but not identical.

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