"So I experienced pain for 13 years before I was diagnosed," she said. Dr Aoife McSweeney, obstetrician, gynaecologist and endometriosis surgeon at CUMH, and with the supra-regional endometriosis centre, agreed. Excision is seen as the gold-standard treatment for deep disease and also used with superficial type lesions. “But so is the back-up, the ability to communicate back to clinicians in Ireland, that’s there’s data-capture and that there’s follow-up with patients. However, she said there was still “need for expansion of community services”, including access to specialist physiotherapists for women with endometriosis.
