IT AFFECTS one in ten women, causes severe pain and can reduce the chances of having a child. And yet it can take years for endometriosis – where tissue similar to the lining of the womb grows in other parts of the body – to be diagnose; some women suffer for almost a decade before it is identified.
Partly this is because the standard way to accurately diagnose endometriosis is by laparoscopy, minor surgery that involves a camera being inserted to inspect the pelvic area and taking a biopsy.
