CXCL8 and endometriosis: These findings are corroborated by other studies in specialized literature that concluded that IL-8 plays a central role in the development of endometriosis through its pro-inflammatory function and neutrophil chemotaxis, being involved in all stages of lesion development (adhesion, invasion, implantation, and proliferation of ectopic endometrial cells), even protecting these cells against programmed cell death through apoptosis [54,55,56,57,58].