Continuous or cyclic contraceptives for endometriosis: a question still without an answer

other OA: closed public-domain-us
Full text JSON View on PubMed View at publisher
AI-generated summary by claude@2026-06+body, 2026-06-13

This paper reviews existing literature to determine if continuous or cyclic oral contraceptives are superior for endometriosis treatment, concluding that this question remains unresolved.

One-sentence paraphrase of the abstract; not a substitute for reading it. No clinical advice. How this works

AI-generated deep summary by claude@2026-06, 2026-06-13 · read from full text

This paper is a brief commentary/discussion focused on the ongoing uncertainty about whether continuous versus cyclic contraceptive regimens are preferable for treating endometriosis-related symptoms. It frames the question in light of existing evidence, including systematic review and randomized or prospective studies that have evaluated long-term use of oral contraceptives and outcomes such as recurrence or postoperative pain. The main caveat emphasized is that the overall question remains unresolved, implying limitations in how the available studies answer the comparative effectiveness issue. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it discusses the unanswered question of continuous versus cyclic contraceptive regimens for endometriosis management.

Read from the paper's body, not the abstract. Not a substitute for reading the paper. No clinical advice. How this works

Full text 1,793 characters · extracted from oa-doi-fallback · click to expand
References Zorbas K, Economopoulos K, Vlahos N (2015) Continuous versus cyclic oral contraceptives for the treatment of endometriosis: a systematic review. Arch Gynecol Obstet 292(1):37–43. doi:10.1007/s00404-015-3641-1 (Epub ahead of print) Vercellini P, Frontino G, De Giorgi O, Pietropaolo G, Pasin R, Crosignani PG (2003) Continuous use of an oral contraceptive for endometriosis-associated recurrent dysmenorrhea that does not respond to a cyclic pill regimen. Fertil Steril 80(3):560–563 Seracchioli R, Mabrouk M, Frasca C, Manuzzi L, Montanari G, Keramyda A, Venturoli S (2010) Long-term cyclic and continuous oral contraceptive therapy and endometrioma recurrence: a randomized controlled trial. Fertil Steril 93(1):52–56 Seracchioli R, Mabrouk M, Frasca C, Manuzzi L, Savelli L, Venturoli S (2010) Long-term oral contraceptive pills and postoperative pain management after laparoscopic excision of ovarian endometrioma: a randomized controlled trial. Fertil Steril 94(2):464–471 Vlahos N, Vlachos A, Triantafyllidou O, Vitoratos N, Creatsas G (2013) Continuous versus cyclic use of oral contraceptives after surgery for symptomatic endometriosis: a prospective cohort study. Fertil Steril 100(5):1337–1342 Acknowledgments The authors have received no funding for this article. Conflict of interest The authors report no conflict of interest. Author information Authors and Affiliations Corresponding author Rights and permissions About this article Cite this article Troncon, J.K., Poli-Neto, O.B., Nogueira, A.A. et al. Continuous or cyclic contraceptives for endometriosis: a question still without an answer. Arch Gynecol Obstet 292, 481–482 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-015-3778-y Received: Accepted: Published: Issue date: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-015-3778-y

Text is read by the "Ask this paper" AI Q&A widget below. Extraction quality varies by source — PMC NXML preserves structure cleanly, OA-HTML may include some navigation residue, and OA-PDF can have broken hyphenation. The publisher copy (via DOI) is the canonical version.

My notes (saved in your browser only)

Ask this paper AI returns verbatim quotes from the full text · source: oa-doi-fallback

Answers must be backed by verbatim quotes from this paper's full text. Hallucinated quotes are dropped automatically; if no verbatim passage answers the question, we say so. How this works

Condition tags

endometriosis

MeSH descriptors

Contraceptive Agents Endometriosis Contraceptive Agents Endometriosis Female Humans

Citation neighborhood (no data yet)

We don't have any in-corpus citations linked to this paper yet. The paper's references may be in our DB but unresolved to ``paper_id`` (resolution happens at ingest when the cited DOI matches a row we already have). Run the cross-source citation reconcile pass to retry.

Source provenance

europepmc
last seen: 2026-07-28T06:14:09.330459+00:00
pubmed
last seen: 2026-05-13T22:17:52.213533+00:00
unpaywall
last seen: 2026-05-14T19:30:52.867331+00:00
License: public-domain-us · commercial use OK · attribution required
Courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine