Scientific Symposium Sheds Light on Endometriosis

An in-depth report on Dr. Seckin's EFA's May 20th inaugural conference, which illuminated ground-breaking research on the devastating disease.

After Decades of Endometriosis Pain, a Positive Step for Women

What made Padma Lakshmi decide to create with her doctor Tamer Seckin, MD, the Endometriosis Foundation of America.

Get Endometriosis Diagnosed Early

EFA cofounder Padma Lakshmi says her one health regret is that her endometriosis did not get diagnosed decades earlier, as it should have been and at last was after she was finally referred to cofounder Dr. Seckin.

Exercise and Endometriosis Pain-Relief

EFA cofounder Padma Lakshmi says that boxing has been a major part of her post-pregnancy fitness regime.  And the Foundation's Dr. Seckin suggests that similar, vigorous, aerobic exercise really helps to alleviate endometriosis pain and discomfort.

What Can Young People Do to Raise Endometriosis Awareness?

How can youth take a stand today for an overlooked, debilitating disease that affects millions of women?
This site for young volunteers produced a text story as well as video interview of EFA founder Tamer Seckin, MD, concerning just that topic and also May 20th's Second Annual Blossom Ball, designed to raise both awareness and funds for his Foundation

The "Right Questions" Doctors Should Ask Patients Concerning Endometriosis & More

If a physician does not ask a patient the "right questions," endometriosis diagnosis can be missed, indicates Dr. Seckin during this brief "Ask Dr. DeSilva" show interview. Dr. Seckin also defines what questions that physicians should ask patients and more.

Stem Cells & Other New Developments in Endometriosis Research

At one point in this hour-long interview, EFA's Tamer Seckin, MD, suggests that scientists who are investigating stem cells may some day develop a treatment which can identify cells that lead to painful endometriosis and perhaps block their effects. He earlier discussed other, novel research developments and the EFA's May 20th Medical Conference

Endometriosis In-Depth
Dr. Seckin talks about the mission of his Endometriosis Foundation of America, why the "challenges" of endometriosis attracted him to specialize in the field for over 20 years and additional, related topics, during this approximately 13-minute "Health & Well Being Report" interview.

Endometriosis--A "Woman's Period Gone Wrong"
Dr. Seckin talks about the challenges of endometriosis diagnosis and treatment during this brief "Health & Well Being Report" interview.

A Timely Diagnosis
Endometriosis can cause a woman excruciating pain with her period and also sex, but early diagnosis and treatment can make a difference in her quality of life, suggests Dr. Seckin during this brief "Health and Well Being Report" interview.

Padma Lakshmi's long, painful endometriosis struggle finally was alleviated after she met Tamer Seckin, MD.

Dr. Seckin and a patient talk about endometriosis, a leading cause of female infertility, as well as treatment for it.

Endometriosis Awareness Month is celebrated worldwide every March. This story about the annual observance in addition cites the Endometriosis Foundation of America and also Dr. Seckin as forces that continue "to raise awareness about the illness and advocate for early diagnosis and intervention".

After a 20-year battle with the condition, Padma Lakshmi finally got the right diagnosis and teamed up with her doctor, Tamer Seckin, MD, to create the Endometriosis Foundation of America.

Dr. Seckin during this interview is called an "expert in the field of endometriosis." He discusses the condition and what can be done to treat or possibly prevent it.

Talk to your gynecologist and don't assume that all menstrual pain is "normal," says Dr. Seckin.

During this Doctor Radio (Sirius XM) interview, the show's host said Dr. Seckin is New York City's "go to" specialist for endometriosis. At one point in the hour-long interview, Dr. Seckin describes the disease's symptoms, such as pain with your period, or with sex.

To help raise awareness of “the disease that people don’t want to talk about,” Lakshmi and Seckin recently started the Endometriosis Foundation of America. Lakshmi said she also hopes that more researchers will direct their attention to the disease, following MIT’s lead. “I’m very, very moved that somebody finally has been hearing the silent cries and tears of women across the country,” she said.

"This new center at MIT is the first of its kind and includes researchers from all types of medical fields. According to Lakshmi (who also co-founded the Endometriosis Foundation of America along with Dr. Tamer Seckin)".

Lakshmi [along with Dr. Seckin] has become the driving force behind the Endometriosis Foundation of America, which together with researchers at MIT, is pushing to develop new treatments for the illness.

"After 35, chances for a natural pregnancy are going down. If you have endometriosis, that process is significantly affected," said Dr. Tamer Seckin, [Padma] Lakshmi's doctor and co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America.

[MIT's new gynepathology] center includes more than a dozen researchers at MIT, Harvard, and elsewhere. The effort is generating excitement from others in the field. Dr. Tamer Seckin, a surgeon from New York City and cofounder with [Padma] Lakshmi of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, said that it commonly takes at least a decade for women to be correctly diagnosed.

"It's one of the most misunderstood. misdiagnosed, mismanaged and mistreated diseases. And because of that, women end up being infertile and in chronic pain", says Dr. Tamer Seckin.

“Twelve years ago Mary Frances Mango, 35, a nurse in Smithtown, New York, was diagnosed with Endometriosis. After the surgery, he [Dr. Seckin] put her on a mild birth control pill to moderate estrogen levels and lower the chance of future growth. So far, she’s pain-free.”

“She didn’t think she could conceive,” the source says. Indeed, her doctor, Tamer Seckin, says pregnancy with the condition is rare. If a woman has trouble conceiving and the man is normal, 80 percent of the time, endometriosis is a cause, he tell Us.

“She'd gone from doctor to doctor at some of the best hospitals in the United States. She rewound her history and realized she could have been diagnosed much earlier." And had her condition been identified more promptly, says Seckin, she would have been spared years of agony. Not to mention major surgery...”

“This is one of the most mistreated diseases in women,” says Tamer Seckin, Specialist Surgeon in Endometriosis, who is affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital. “It can destroy a woman’s life. It is debilitating. This disease needs to be taken seriously by healthcare officials. If not, it could lead to further surgeries.”

After taking her medical history and doing a physical exam, Seckin told Lakshmi that he was fairly confident that her problem wasn’t bad cramps but severe endometriosis, a mysterious, painful and destructive condition that affects about 10 percent of all women and may be involved in up to half of all cases of infertility

Dr. Seckin confirms that the disease is often misdiagnosed. “When it gets serious enough, women are sent to a urologist and told they have cystitis. When they end up in the emergency room, they’re diagnosed with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Thousands of women end up with unnecessary hysterectomies,” he says.”

“Unfortunately there are very few laparoscopic surgeons the medical profession recommends; the only one in New York... was Dr. Tamer Seckin who has over 16 years and 10,000 hours experience in laparoscopic surgery. He is able to remove not only “normal” fibroids, but can remove large and awkwardly located fibroids as well...”