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Endometriosis
The disease silenced.
Taboo in the 21st century 'to El Soldadito de Plomo cafeteria |
This Thursday, November 28, María C. Martínez-Esparza will be the guest at the Awareness and Thought Cafes, which Cartagena Piensa periodically organizes at the El Soldadito de Lead Cafeteria at 20:00 hours with 'Sorry ... Are I Endo? ...What?.
Endometriosis
The disease silenced.
Taboo in the 21st century '.
On this occasion it will count with the collaboration of the Endomequé Association?
and with the presence of the Regional Association of Sick Endomás.
It will be presented by María Jesús Morillas, a member of the Cartagena Piensa promoter group.
The Department of Equality of the City Council of Cartagena collaborates in this activity.
During the talk we will talk about this serious and disabling disease, which affects a large percentage of women of reproductive age and is a great unknown in the current information society in which we live.
Endometriosis is a chronic and silent disease that affects 1 in 10 women, a total of 176 million affected worldwide.
In Spain, 2 million women suffer from it, while in the Region of Murcia there are 35,000 women affected.
It is a disease that occurs when the tissue of the uterus, the endometrium, grows and falls out of it, usually in ovaries, tubes, bladder, intestines, kidneys, liver or even in lungs, causing sharp pains which do not have a specific treatment
It is not a disease that only adult women suffer but also young women aged 13 or 14, which is important that all women be studied, investigated and reported.
Despite its impact on the population, this disease remains a great unknown.
It is not known what causes it and, to this day, it does not have a cure.
María C. Martínez-Esparza Alvargonzález is Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of International Relations and Research of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia (UM).
It belongs to the research group of the UM and the Murcian Institute of Biosanitary Research (IMIB), where research is carried out on the role of the immune system in endometriosis that allows an improvement in its diagnosis and treatment.
The Region of Murcia has the only gynecological unit specialized in endometriosis that exists throughout Spain while, the University of Murcia, is also the only one that has a research team on this disease.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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