Word: diethylstilbestrol
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Their report indicated that administration of the drug--diethylstilbestrol (DES) appeared to cause a rare vaginal cancer years after in the daughters of women who had taken the drug to prevent miscarriage...
...problem is that residues of many invisible chemicals remain in the meat, endangering the final consumer, man. Some, like nitrite and nitrate preservatives, can be poisonous under certain conditions. Others, like the artificial hormone diethylstilbestrol, are suspected of causing cancer when consumed in large doses (see MEDICINE). To safeguard the public, the report urges that alt meat inspection be removed from the Agriculture Department and put under a tough new public-health agency...
Beginning in 1946, pregnant women with histories of spontaneous abortions were frequently treated with diethylstilbestrol, an artificial hormone. No one knows the number of miscarriages prevented by stilbestrol among the many thousands of women who took it; by 1960, questions about the estrogen compound's efficacy had induced most doctors to avoid it in treating pregnant women. But there is no doubt that in at least a handful of cases, daughters of women so treated have fallen victim to vaginal cancer. The mothers' use of stilbestrol is suspected of planting a hormonal time bomb that can be deadly...
...read with interest "The Morning-After Pill" [May 6], about the new drug ORF-3858. The similar drug diethylstilbestrol, which Yale researchers are finding equally effective, has been used by veterinarians for years to treat mismating in animals. One of the most noted side effects is the increase in libido. This sounds like the beginning of quite a vicious cycle. Anyone for tennis...
Casting around for an available medicine with a similar action, the Yale researchers hit upon diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic female hormone commonly prescribed to correct uterine disorders. With a small number of volunteers, including victims of rape, they found that this drug prevented the development of pregnancy in humans...