Diethylstilboestrol (DES), the synthetic oestrogen, caused re-productive deformities and reproductive cancer among a generation of children born to millions of American women who took the drug to prevent mis-carriage in the middle of the last...
Researchers fear that even the granddaughters of DES (diethylstilbestrol) mothers could be at increased risk of developing cancer. ...
A generation ago, doctors all over the world handed out a drug to women that they said would prevent miscarriage. No one thought to ask how this drug might effect the resulting children. Only now, ...
Women whose mothers took the fertility drug DES may face a far greater risk of developing breast cancer. ...
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Women who took diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriages during pregnancy in the Fifties and Sixties have a "statistically significant" increased risk of developing breast cancer (JAMA, 28 ...