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Lucía Arnáiz, musical producer at Warner Spain, collaborates with the financing of the project on endometriosis of the Immunology group at the University of Murcia.
It is a chronic gynecological disorder of unknown cause, characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus and causing pelvic pain, infertility problems and associated with ovarian cancer.
The twenty-year-old will move a charity concert this fall in Madrid and the proceeds will go to the UMU team.
It has also launched the informative campaign under the title 'Endomeque?', The initial question of many people when they mention the condition.
The objectives of this initiative are to create an awareness about endometriosis and to collaborate financially to support the development of less invasive treatments.
"Medication is palliative, there is no cure, it's about hormones that revolutionize you, many people do not understand you or think you exaggerate," the artist representative describes.
In this sense, Murcia researchers deepen the immune mechanisms involved in the process to achieve less aggressive diagnostic methods and more effective therapies.
Specifically, they study peritoneal macrophages, cells with a relevant role in this pathology, capable of recognizing, ingesting and eliminating pathogens among other functions.
Scientists use the macrophages of healthy women to detect alterations in endometriosis affected and identify therapeutic targets.
The young woman stresses the difficult diagnosis that takes between 5 and 10 years: "the doctors told me that the discomfort was normal and that I was developing, until at 15 I started to faint in pain".
Together with the physical indisposition, Arnáiz added impotence and anger when a disorder that affects 2 million women in Spain is approximately invisible.
Finding the gap that had been related to this disease led him to act: "It seemed that it was not studied, that nothing was done, I searched online until I found the Immunology group of the University of Murcia, who had completed a crowdfunding campaign without reaching your goals. "
Lucía Arnáiz visits Murcia this Friday, February 15, Murcia to learn about the facilities and the research team formed by Pilar García Peñarrubia, Maria Concepcion Martínez-Esparza Alvargonzález, Antonio José Ruiz Alcaraz and Violeta Carmona Martínez.
The expert Concepción Martinez emphasizes that "it is a pleasure to support the visibility of this disease so that it has the support it deserves".
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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