How To Use Stilbestrol In A Sentence
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Several agricultural innovations like 2,4-D weed spray and diethyl stilbestrol for cattle feeding were banned by federal agencies because of their carcinogenic consequences.
Diffusion of Innovations
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For example, a small number of women who were exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogenic drug, developed vaginal cancer as young girls.
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Ongoing epidemiological studies suggest a slightly increased threat of breast cancer in women exposed to synthetic diethylstilbestrol.
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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!
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Ongoing epidemiological studies suggest a slightly increased threat of breast cancer in women exposed to synthetic diethylstilbestrol.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, another estrogen, diethylstilbestrol, was widely given to Western women early in their pregnancies in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriage.
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Final report on the evaluation of four toxic chemicals in an In Vivo/In Vitro toxicological screen -- acrylamide, chlordecone, cyclophosphamide, and diethylstilbestrol by Joellen Lewtas
Melamine Infant Formula (comic)
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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
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Farmers have given the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol to cattle, effectively chemically castrating male animals.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, another estrogen, diethylstilbestrol, was widely given to Western women early in their pregnancies in a misguided attempt to prevent miscarriage.
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The second layer contained a phial of little pink capsules, stilbestrol, the cousin explained in her letter.
Lace
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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
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Then DES diethyl stilbestrol was banned for cattle feeding, as were antibiotic swine-feeding supplements and 2, 4, 5-D weed spray.
Diffusion of Innovations
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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
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We have seen it when the sons and daughters of the mothers who were given diethylstilbestrol showed up seriously ill a generation later, and when infants whose mothers were given thalidomide were born deformed.
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And then in 1971, it became apparent that women whose mothers had taken the synthesized estrogen compound diethyl stilbestrol (DES) during the first trimester of pregnancy had a distinctly higher risk of developing adenocarcinoma of the vagina, a relatively rare malignancy.
Getting in Nature's Way
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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
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For example, a small number of women who were exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol, a synthetic estrogenic drug, developed vaginal cancer as young girls.
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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.
Letters to the Editor
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Several agricultural innovations like 2,4-D weed spray and diethyl stilbestrol for cattle feeding were banned by federal agencies because of their carcinogenic consequences.
Diffusion of Innovations
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Farmers have given the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol to cattle, effectively chemically castrating male animals.
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Female hormones lead to gynecomastia, as demonstrated in patients with alcoholic liver disease and those who have been treated with drugs such as stilbestrol.
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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
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AbstractFor many years, researchers and public health specialists have been assessing the human health impact of prenatal exposure to the estrogenic anti-miscarriage drug, diethylstilbestrol commonly known as DES or "stilbestrol".
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Then DES diethyl stilbestrol was banned for cattle feeding, as were antibiotic swine-feeding supplements and 2, 4, 5-D weed spray.
Diffusion of Innovations
