Did you know? 1 in 10 women worldwide suffer from endometriosis. Click the image below to see what it is like to live with endometriosis. Click here for a theme song to go with the photo gallery. Personally, I like the UB40 and 808 State remix.

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Salina Family Enters NASCAR Race to Raise Endometriosis Awareness Posted: Feb 25, 2010 3:36 PM (SALINA, Kan.) A Salina teen is diagnosed with a disease that causes extreme chronic pain. Endometriosis affects millions of women each year, but the cause is still a mystery. Now one family hopes to raise awareness. Shellby Humbargar is a […]

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Endometriosis, the life-wrecker doctors dismiss as period pain By Caitlin Davies – dailymail.co.uk Last updated at 11:29 PM on 15th February 2010 Sometimes the pain was so bad Ruth Forwood, then aged just 12, would nearly pass out. ‘It felt like someone was stabbing me inside,’ she recalls. When she was 13, she went to […]

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Would you jump 10,000 feet from an airplane to call attention to an incurable illness? That’s exactly what Abigail Smith will be doing on March 13, 2010 (her date has been rescheduled and will be announced again soon)! Abigail has endometriosis, an excruciating condition whereby the lining of the uterus travels and embeds in surrounding […]

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Neuroendocrine cells in eutopic endometrium of women with endometriosis (Research from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University in the area of endometriosis described.(Report) Article from: Women’s Health Weekly Article date: January 28, 2010 ) Data detailed in ‘Neuroendocrine cells in eutopic endometrium of women with endometriosis’ have been presented. “Endometriosis is a common gynaecological disease, but […]

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A year ago, I found and posted some old research articles about aromatase and endometriosis. In the first article, dated May 2004, it reads, “Aromatase P450 (P450arom) is the key enzyme for biosynthesis of estrogen, which is an essential hormone for the establishment and growth of endometriosis. There is no detectable aromatase enzyme activity in […]

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Endometriosis not predicted by hormone effect Internal Medicine News, Feb 1, 2008 by Miriam E. Tucker WASHINGTON — Response to hormonal therapy does not accurately predict whether a patient has endometriosis, Dr. Todd R. Jenkins reported at the annual meeting of the AAGL. Laparoscopy has long been considered the standard for diagnosing endometriosis. However, a […]

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Endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer: A ten-year cohort study of women living in the Estrie Region of Quebec, Canada Published on: 2010-01-19 Objectives: Endometriosis has been believed to increase the risk of developing ovarian cancer, but recent data supporting this hypothesis are lacking. The aim of this study was to verify whether the incidence of endometriosis, ovarian […]

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Expression of interleukin-1 (IL-1) ligands system in the most common endometriosis-associated ovarian cancer subtypes Published on: 2010-01-28 Objectives: Endometrioid carcinoma of the ovary is one of the most types of epithelial ovarian cancer associated to endometrioisis. Endometrioid tumors as well as endometriotic implants are characterized by the presence of epithelial cells, stromal cells, or a […]

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In a study published January 19, 2010, researchers let us know that previous studies show for a fact that angiogenesis is largely found in rectosigmoid endometriosis (found near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum), and it embeds deeply. In this new study, researchers experimental with peritoneal endometriosis (endo found in the […]

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