‘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.
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.
“There is a long history to this idea,” endocrinologist and lead author Professor Helena Teede told AusDoc.
“When this condition was originally described, it was discovered through surgical exploration of the ovaries, which found what appeared to be cysts on the ovaries.
