Medicine has advanced so much, why is surgery still the only way to diagnose this disease that, according to the WHO, affects 10% of women and girls globally.
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There’s a limit to what medicine can do. It’s like that Theranos blood test machine: sounds cool in principle, but in reality, it’s physically impossible to get that much data from a drop of blood.
So first of all, there are lots of ailments that have similar symptoms as endometriosis. For instance, I had adenomyosis, and my lining also didn’t grow in the correct spot, but it wasn’t on the outside the uterus. Also, since the lining is shed every month, it’s not thick enough to be seen by imaging. Anyway, long story short, you ‘ll always need to biopsy the tissue to get a more accurate diagnosis.
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