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Endometriosis is a fairly common but poorly-understood disease that is frequently undetected, untreated, and misdiagnosed. Current estimates of those who are affected by it range from 2% to 10% of all women in their reproductive years. According to the National Women’s Health Information Center, at least 5.5 million women in the United States have endometriosis. …
This common condition was largely suffered in silence, recently celebrities have begun to share their experiences with this often misunderstood, painful, and debilitating condition to raise awareness and help to improve standards of care and resources for patients with endometriosis. Progresses is being made slowly, a new drug treatment for endometriosis associated pain has recently …