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It has been recognized for a long time and research by treatment with hormones has been done since the '50s. The problem is that the female system is so complicated, they just can't quite figure out either the cause or the cure. The one real cure/improvement for endometriosis is menopause... which seems a very long wait for young women. Same with adhesions... where the only treatment is surgery which just causes new adhesions. Although using the new fancy laparoscopic machine does a better job. The one I had used on me in the 70s was the origin of my first adhesions. They complicated my hysterectomy in 1990, and by 2007, I was at Mayo for them to attempt to decrease the pain caused by the new adhesions. I'd give their success rate a C-

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