Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
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So they start making their own estrogen.
Right.
So locally, they support themselves without needing systemic estrogen.
Right.
And then they start, you know, they increase vascularity to the lesion.
And then they start growing nerve fibers around them, each lesion.
It's just, I always say it acts like cancer, but it's not.
Let's say you have a patient with colon cancer.
You go in, you resect the colon cancer.
You'd never tell them, okay, sir, I'll see you in six months.
He'll be back with colon cancer everywhere.
You have to give him chemo.
Endometriosis is not cancer, but you have to treat it the same way.
What I mean by that is once you go in laparoscopically and cut these lesions out, you have to give it hormonal suppression.
Otherwise, it comes back.
So we can get to that.
But these implants are self-limited, right?
They basically have vessels that's feeding them.
They make their own estrogen.
They start an inflammatory process in that area and they start growing.