Why is there no diagnostic test for Endometriosis?

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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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The goal would be to find a biomarker that you had a normal range for women who have their endometrium in the correct place and then a range that suggested there was a lot more than there should be.

For people like me with bicornate uteruses that biomarker would give a false positive but I might have then found out about the dodgy plumbing a couple of decades earlier

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