‘You do not have cysts on your ovaries’: PCOS likely to be renamed this year

Doctors and patients agree the focus on ovarian 'cysts' underplays the condition.
Professor Helena Teede.

PCOS will probably have a new name before 2025 is over, a leading endocrinologist says.

More than 85% of patients and 76% of doctors want a new name for the condition, according to survey results from 7700 people, published in eClinicalMedicine in May.