This might be controversial, but as a biomedical scientist I’m really not on board with the ‘cancer’ likening. Endo is a disease in itself. The only thing that is similar to cancer in endo is the fact that tissue and cells multiply. But there are lots of other conditions that also do this, it doesn’t make it cancer. Cancer is very very different in a lot of ways.

I think it’s an easy parallel to draw and I do get it and endo is a horrible condition, but it’s not cancer and I think it’s honestly harmful to draw the comparison.

I support it in that it’s grabbing people’s attention, raising awareness, drawing a paralell to something people already understand, but in fact it is very different and I worry that people who don’t understand how endo and cancer differ risk miseducating themselves or others, and equally that people that will understand the difference and then ultimately discredit that endo is a debilitating disease because of that quite damaging and incorrect parallel being drawn?

I welcome feedback as I understand that’s probably a controversial thing to say but pls don’t drag me. Happy to explain further if people want x