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Endometriosis: Growing Awareness

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Endometriosis Growing Awareness game quiz
"These are some facts and bits of trivia to celebrate endometriosis awareness! We will cover some history, some milestones, and ways to promote finding cures for this disease. "

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1. Let's start off by introducing some people who helped pave the way for endometriosis to be studied in the medical field. Which doctor named the condition of menstruational implants and tissue growing outside the uterus as "endometriosis"?
    Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky
    John A. Sampson
    J. Marion Sims
    Daniel Shroen


2. Endometriosis is a female disease that has only been closely studied for the past couple centuries. Which of these people wrote the first known detailed report about endometriosis and its condition?
    Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky
    Eric English
    J. Marion Sims
    Daniel Shroen


3. Which of these is not a reason why endometriosis was NOT closely studied or diagnosed in patients before the nineteenth century?
    Many of the physicians and doctors were male and the study of many female procedures was considered unorthodox.
    Most symptoms of endometriosis were mistaken for being part of women's normal body functions.
    The medical field did not have many technologies or medical equipment to treat endometriosis.
    The disease was widely known and most doctors considered it too common for treatment.


4. Although medical knowledge of the disease has improved, there are still many reasons why diagnosing endometriosis can be very hard. Which of these is NOT a reason why women typically have trouble being properly diagnosed?
    endometriosis is not a recognized medical condition
    pain is often dismissed as being a normal part of women's bodily functions
    the symptoms of endometriosis can mimic other medical conditions
    endometriosis can often not be observed or found through common tests or exams


5. Endometriosis can have harmful effects on a woman's reproductive system and body. In severe cases endometriosis can stick itself to surrounding organs causing pain, cysts, bleeding, and malfunctions of other body systems such as the digestive and urinary systems. If left untreated, endometriosis can result in infertility or complications in pregnancy or childbirth.
    True
    False


6. Although endometriosis can be regulated with steroids, hormones, and medication methods, the most common way of diagnosing and treating endometriosis is through surgery. Which of these is not a surgery that treats endometriosis?
    laparoscopy
    penectomy
    hysterectomy
    laparotomy


7. Endometriosis has been getting growing attention from famous celebrities and people who were diagnosed with it. Which one of these ladies was a wife of a former United States president, a senator from New York, and a well known world speaker who struggled with endometriosis?
    Condoleezza Rice
    Hilary Clinton
    Dolly Monroe
    Abigail Adams


8. Endometriosis has been receiving growing national attention in many countries which has helped bring more attention to finding a cure. The United States Congress celebrated the first official National Endometriosis Awareness Month in March of 2002. Countries in Europe, South America, and Australia also established their own Endometriosis Awareness campaign months.
    True
    False


9. Like other diseases, endometriosis has the honor of being represented by a ribbon to promote awareness. Which of these is the color of the endometriosis awareness ribbon?
    pink
    yellow
    blue
    green


10. Making a difference in the fight for endometriosis can be easier than many people realize. Which is NOT a way that people can promote finding a cure for endometriosis?
    donating to endometriosis support and research groups
    researching to better understand the disease
    assuming that finding a cure or fighting the disease is hopeless
    listening and encouraging women who fight the disease


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Compiled May 18 13