EKU Podcast: Adenomyosis & Endometriosis
Update: 2025-08-18
Description
Adenomyosis affects around 10% of women in the UK and is most prevalent in women aged 40-50, particularly those who have had pregnancies. It is frequently found alongside endometriosis and uterine fibroids and can cause heavy, painful, or irregular periods.
In this podcast Dr Thomas Round talks to Dr Sharon Dixon, a GP in Oxford with a background in endometriosis research and supporting GPs with female patients suffering with endometriosis and their periods, about the symptoms, initial assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adenomyosis as well as its possible causes and overlap with endometriosis.
This podcast falls within the Gynaecology and Breast curriculum field.
In this podcast Dr Thomas Round talks to Dr Sharon Dixon, a GP in Oxford with a background in endometriosis research and supporting GPs with female patients suffering with endometriosis and their periods, about the symptoms, initial assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adenomyosis as well as its possible causes and overlap with endometriosis.
This podcast falls within the Gynaecology and Breast curriculum field.
- British Journal of General Practice article on Uterine adenomyosis: an update for GPs
- RCGP EKU Programme module on Endometriosis: diagnosis and management
- RCGP eLearning course on Endometriosis
- RCGP eLearning course on Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
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