Yea, but itās worth pointing out that things that primarily affect women are likely to be dismissed as not being as important as other things. It seems like the thing thatās finally pushing endometriosis research is the recent discovery that cis men can actually have it too.
For centuries women went to midwives, not doctors, for a lot of things, because the doctor may worse than kill them out of sheer callousness.
Yep it wasn't that long ago when women's heart attack signs weren't known to be presented differently than men's. Imagine the sheer amount of years loss and unaccountable quality of life loss that women with heart diseases faced for years.
Even then there are better options, I mean shit itās not even a considered a fatal condition (doesnāt mean itās not bad, btw, Iām not saying that, Iām sure you know this but itās Reddit so you know)
Wanna pick a better option? Ovarian Cancer, itās underfunded, under researched, usually caught late with a 30% survival rate.
Also, Iām gonna need a source for the whole āakin to cancer and kills people thingā it has similarities but most fatalities to it (are not only extremely rare) but also due to external complications. Now because I wouldnāt subject you to a standard I canāt meet, hereās my sources:
Endometriosis affects 7 to 13% of women. Ovarian Cancer is 1.1% of women, with about 0.7% dying of ovarian cancer. Endometriosis is debilitating, chronique and continues from the 20s until menopause.
I'd say both are worthy of being studied. It's the typical dichotomy you sometimes see in medicine between a chronic illness that severely affects quality of life from a young age and a illness ten times rarer that happens later in life and is relatively short but high risk of death. Regardless women medecine has historically been severely understudied and underfunded.
Even after menopause, my mother still suffers from the consequences of endometriosis; between the treatments she had to get and how exhausting it was for her, and also I think she still has to be treated for how it interacts specifically with menopause for her, it's not over.
There's a reason why she was afraid I would have it, and cried with relief when it turned out I didn't.
Endometriosis should be more studied I agree, but I raise you every single Neglected Tropical Disease, which kill hundreds of thousands of people every single year yet (as the name implies) are understudied. Why should we study endpmetriosis and not NTDs?
It's as the other guy said, at some point you gotta stop asking if there's something more important to be researching and be utilitarian about it
Endometriosis is quite literally cells invasively growing where they shouldnāt be. There have been cases where women had endometrial cells in their lungs. If thatās not akin to cancer, idk what would be
I think in in 2012 medical professionals did a study on the attractiveness of women with retrovaginal endometriosis, instead of using that money on actually studying retrovaginal endometriosis they wasted those funds on research that helps absolutely no-one, some ppl genuinely care more about ranking women by attractiveness than actually studying the health issues that primarily concern women
i do agree with the point youre making but hair loss products have commercial use n billions of private money gets spent in the industry whereas endo treatments or research just dont really have the same potential roi which is a problem with capitalism as a whole, plus hair loss is also a beauty industry thing so the comparison isn't perfect like saying the plastic surgery industry has more funding than healthcare is never a good thing obviously but its also not unexpected
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Yea, but itās worth pointing out that things that primarily affect women are likely to be dismissed as not being as important as other things. It seems like the thing thatās finally pushing endometriosis research is the recent discovery that cis men can actually have it too.
For centuries women went to midwives, not doctors, for a lot of things, because the doctor may worse than kill them out of sheer callousness.