European Parliament host seminar to highlight suffering of women with endometriosis - This week Diana Wallis MEP, Vice-President of the European Parliament, will host a seminar in Brussels to highlight the campaign to raise awareness of endometriosis. Diana Wallis MEP said: "Raising awareness of this disease is essential as endometriosis affects at least 14 million women and girls in the EU. "Although it is difficult to predict precisely how much endometriosis costs, it is thought that in the region of €30 billion a year is lost just in days taken off work due to illness. Yet due to a lack of awareness, both in the medical professions and amongst the general public, sufferers face an average wait of eight years from presenting with symptoms to being diagnosed." As part of this awareness-raising exercise Diana Wallis MEP, herself an endometriosis sufferer, will host a lunch seminar on 28 March at 12.