Team:Rochester
UteRus
Empowering Women's
Healthcare Worldwide
It’s your UteRus,
it’s time to take it back from endometriosis.
ENDOMETRIOSIS
Endometriosis
Is a chronic disease in which endometrial-like tissue grows outside of the uterine cavity.
176 Million
women affected around the world.
7 years
is the average diagnostic delay for endometriosis.
$18-22 billion
of economic burden to health systems.
1 in 10
women are affected during their reproductive years
OUR MOTIVATION
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INSPIRATION
It all began with our own personal ignorance towards what endometriosis was and our progress as we looked more and more into the biological pathways of this disease. As time passed, more shocking revelations came into light, the lack of research done for such a common disease in women, the years of delay it takes to diagnose endometriosis and the only existing diagnostic procedure of an invasive operation referred to as laparoscopy.
There are many factors that play a role in understanding the underlying symptoms of endometriosis. Nevertheless, researchers hypothesize that the percentage of women with endometriosis is much greater but due to the number of people unaware of this disease thousands of women suffer an excessive amount of years going untreated and thinking that pelvic pain, a heavy menstruation cycle and occasionally infertility, is a normal part of their daily lives.
Without enough research available and the underfunding of this disease. Our team was inspired to rise to the challenge and not only educate ourselves but educate others and help in the progress of finding non-invasive rapid diagnostic testing.
As endometriosis researcher and outside mentor Dr. Idhaliz Flores said, "we need more people looking into endometriosis because there isn't enough research done. People don't bother looking into it or doing research on their own".
Our Project
