Endo News Updates

Again... long time. I am sorry. Life has been busy, I have been out of town, working, playing and my big brother got married, what can I say?

Quite a few interesting and new developments have come about recently regarding endo research. Proellex, a "promising" new selective progesterone receptor modulator (SPRM) was undergoing phase II clinical trials for the treatment of endo and fibroids.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Repros-Therapeutics-Inc-bw-1930651958.html?x=0&.v=1

The trials were voluntarily suspended due to liver toxicity concerns of trial patients. I wonder when doctors are going to stop trying to mask the symptoms and start actually researching, finding a cause and then find a way to address the cause. You can throw all the cheese you want onto broccoli, but you still have broccoli, it is just covered with cheese. Yes, bad analogy, I know but it is true. BTW, I don't have anything against broccoli. It just is late and I had no other analogy ideas that sort of made sense.

In the UK news today, evidently an endometrial biopsy will detect the presence of nerve fibers specific to having endo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1207541/Rapid-test-diagnose-common-womb-condition-endometriosis.html

Evidently it is almost 100% accurate (sounds too good to be true, also note that this is based on one small study with only 99 women). If it does prove to be accurate, this could be a great thing for women, an easy way to detect endo, hopefully preventing years of undiagnosed suffering and unnecessary surgeries. I am also a part of the Juneau Biosciences study which is looking for an endo gene to diagnose endo in the future using a very simple blood or saliva test.

How fucking easy would it be to be diagnosed by spitting in a tube? So much better than surgery, just for a diagnosis.

Obviously, surgery still will have a massive role in treating endo, as an immaculate excision removing all visible endo lesions along with a wide margin around the lesions is by far the best and longest lasting treatment option we have. We will still need all out laps, just not for the initial diagnosis.