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 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 ...
Researchers fear that even the granddaughters of DES (diethylstilbestrol) mothers could be at increased risk of developing cancer. ...