{"id":165,"date":"2025-07-08T10:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:03:14","slug":"report-from-the-world-congress-of-endometriosis-2025-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/report-from-the-world-congress-of-endometriosis-2025-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from the World Congress of Endometriosis 2025 \u2013 Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\t\t\tReport from the World Congress of Endometriosis 2025 – Sydney\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\"WES\n\tAuthors<\/strong>
\nProfessor Jason Abbott, A\/Prof Erin Nesbitt-Hawes\n

In May 2025, more than 1100 delegates from around the world came to Sydney to participate, share and present more than 500 research abstracts at the 16th<\/sup> World Congress of Endometriosis. The congress was focussed on new directions in the field of endometriosis with clinical, scientific, social science, epidemiology and associated fields included in the program.<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker Professor Laurie Keefer presented on gut hypnotherapy as a means of reducing chronic pain in the IBS population and the translation of this to endometriosis.\u00a0\u00a0 This data-heavy presentation provided clear, concise tools that were simple to use for all clinicians when dealing with chronic pain and how these can (and have) started to be adapted to people with endometriosis.\u00a0 She presented the evidence for the supportive role before and after surgery or other interventions and the benefits to patients and health care services.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The pre-congress surgical workshop included presentations from top endometriosis surgeons from all over the world and Australia, demonstrating new techniques in managing severe endometriosis and the risks associated with surgery.\u00a0\u00a0 Panel highlights were discussions regarding complications of surgical management and how to address problems for patients and surgeons.\u00a0\u00a0 The upper abdominal session with diaphragmatic and intra-thoracic surgery left many bug-eyed with the surgical skill involved for this type of procedure.\u00a0 The take-home messages of having a small number of highly skilled surgeons doing such procedures was important, but critically the data on outcomes, recurrence and symptom resolution was underlined.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not surgery for all.<\/p>\n

On the scientific front, genetics was a predominant theme with an increased identification of genetic predisposition to endometriosis. Multiple presentations demonstrated a greater capacity to identify specific genes associated with endometriosis – now over 110 – and ever increasing as the data sets being used are no longer in the thousands, but rather hundreds of thousands.\u00a0 The application of AI to these data sets has meant faster, more reliable determination of the output that could be used in clinical setting for earlier detection and potentially a more usable classification system than the 22 we currently have that provide little impact for the patient.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The use of non-invasive protein-based diagnostics were a predominant theme at this years’ congress.\u00a0 Publications for both salivary and blood-based protein signatures for endometriosis diagnosis are marketed, with presentations at the meeting reporting very high sensitivity and specificity.\u00a0\u00a0 Presentations identified that imaging should continue to be first line for severe disease, but these new techniques may be superior for earlier disease where there is a greater opportunity for disease interruption and imaging remains poor at detection in this setting.\u00a0 Clearly, much more work needs to be done to validate these tests and determine their capacity for detection of recurrence of true disease after an initial diagnosis, however there is considerable scope for improving patient outcomes.<\/p>\n

While the weather was somewhat tempestuous, the sessions were full to overflowing -testimony to the science being presented.\u00a0 The social program with a cruise on Sydney harbour on the opening night of the Vivid festival was a highlight for both our international visitors and locals alike.\u00a0 With the decrease in interval from 3 to 2 years for the world congress it is not long to wait for the next research-driven changes in endometriosis care.\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to the entire committee for their dedication in bringing the congress together and showcasing Sydney and Australia as the place to be for endometriosis research.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n\t\t\t

Authors<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Dr\n\t\t\t\t

A\/Prof Erin Nesbitt-Hawes<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"A\/Prof\n\t\t\t\t

Professor Jason Abbott<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1100+ delegates shared 500+ research abstracts. Key themes: gut hypnotherapy for chronic pain, genetic predisposition advances, AI-enhanced diagnostics, and non-invasive protein-based testing developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/escope.ages.com.au\/july-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}