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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nonsteroidal synthetic drug, C18H20O2, having estrogenic properties and used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Before 1971 it was prescribed to prevent miscarriage and to treat menstrual disorders but was found to cause vaginal cancer and other reproductive abnormalities in the daughters of pregnant women so treated.
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- noun An
orally -activesynthetic nonsteroidal oestrogen , first synthesized in 1938 and withdrawn in the 1970s on being identified as ateratogen .
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- noun a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
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Examples
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In 1971, yet another such study identified an even more unusual carcinogen, a synthetic hormonal medicine called diethylstilbestrol DES.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1971, yet another such study identified an even more unusual carcinogen, a synthetic hormonal medicine called diethylstilbestrol DES.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In 1971, yet another such study identified an even more unusual carcinogen, a synthetic hormonal medicine called diethylstilbestrol DES.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Researchers suspect that BPA could play a role in cancer because of its structural similarities to a cancer-promoting compound called diethylstilbestrol (DES).
NewsInferno 2008
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For decades, the United States Government has been keeping the deep, dark secret of DES (diethylstilbestrol) from Americans so well that most people have never heard of it and don't know that it was the world's first drug disaster.
Diana Bianchini: One of America's Deepest, Darkest Family Secrets: The DES Drug Disaster Diana Bianchini 2010
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That's why, doctors believe, many babies exposed before birth to a drug called DES, or diethylstilbestrol, later developed rare cancers or fertility problems, Taylor says.
Aging well starts in womb, as mom's choices affect whole life 2009
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For example, withdrawing nitrofurans from livestock use took 20 years, DES diethylstilbestrol took seven years and enrofloxacin took five years and cost $3.3 million, says the agency.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012
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A story that recently appeared on the front pages of many newspapers involves the increased risk of breast cancer in women exposed to diethylstilbestrol -- DES -- while in utero.
Bruce A. Barron: What We Know and Don't Know Bruce A. Barron 2011
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For example, withdrawing nitrofurans from livestock use took 20 years, DES diethylstilbestrol took seven years and enrofloxacin took five years and cost $3.3 million, says the agency.
Martha Rosenberg: Are You Eating Antibiotics Without Knowing It? Probably! Martha Rosenberg 2012
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I presented a paper in 2005, with Dr. Milton Diamond, to Dr. Zucker and a host of other experts at the International Behavioral Development Symposium, showing that exposure to DES (diethylstilbestrol) in utero was strongly linked to the onset of the intersexed condition called transsexualism.
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