The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Surgery is not firstline therapy, but it's gold standard. If you have a patient in severe pain who's not responding to hormonal suppression, which we we're going to talk about. But here's the problem with surgery. Do you know that out of 100 gynecologists, one is trained to do laparoscopic endometriosis surgery and then it gets better. If you give 100 laparoscopes to 100 gynecologists, half of them will wake the patient up and say you didn't have it.
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The gold standard way of treating this is a laparoscopic resection of endometriosis. >> Surgery. >> Surgery. >> There's no like VEGF inhibitor or something of that sort. >> So let's talk about that. So you don't have to jump to surgery, but surgery is the gold standard way of diagnosing a to be 100% if you're not confident and b cutting these excising these lesions. We used to burn them, but as of like for the past 15 years, we've learned that you really need to cut them. You don't want to burn them, right? Because burning them is just a band-aid and the pain comes back.