Question 14382 — diseases

Summary

Mr. Guillaume Chiche draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to endometriosis, the leading cause of sterility in women. One in ten French women suffer from endometriosis. Among them, 30 to 40% experience fertility problems. Diagnosis of this disease takes on average six to ten years. The symptoms of endometriosis, which occur during menstruation, are underestimated, screening is currently very low. These symptoms are, however, non-apparent handicaps with devastating effects on both the professional and personal lives of these women but also those of their loved ones and more particularly the other member of the couple. The long delay in diagnosis is therefore unacceptable and must be reduced. During all this time, these women struggle to mask a pain that returns regularly, in practice every month. And the more time passes, the more the disease evolves and becomes invasive on other organs, the only non-definitive remedy being, at the end of this long period, most often surgical and involving many risks. There is in fact to date no real and definitive medical treatment but only treatments with significant side effects (permanent painkillers, artificial menopause). Many associations work daily for a real national policy for the management of pain and illness, aiming in particular to include the study of pathology in the initial training of general practitioners, gynecologists and all the specialties concerned. Also, he would like to know the measures that the Government intends to take to strengthen the means of research and treatment of this pathology and whether an epidemiology is planned scientific with a communication campaign on the subject.

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