The Endometriosis Treatment: You Probably Don’t Know About.

ENDOMETRIOSIS; MEDICAL personnel; MENSTRUATION; PELVIC floor disorders; ORAL contraceptives; GYNECOLOGIC surgery; MINIMALLY invasive procedures

A much stronger possibility, postulate Dr. Redwine and other surgical specialists, is that endometriosis begins before birth, when genetic mutations cause stem cells to lay down abnormal tissue that later develops into endometriosis, especially after it is exposed to estrogen. SCIENCE Like many women with endometriosis, Yoruba Mutakabbir, Ph.D., a 43-year-old education administrator at Texas Southern University in Houston, felt let down by her doctors. The Endometriosis Treatment: You Probably Don't Know About. [Extracted from the article]

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