Journal of the National Cancer Institute, August 1999
“Based on continued cohort studies, we are now fairly sure that DES women face a 20% to 30% excess risk for breast cancer,”
Robert Hoover, M.D., director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute
“DES could serve the study of other potential estrogenic cancer-causing compounds and environmental estrogens — none are as potent as DES and it would make an excellent model,”
Retha Newbold, head of the Developmental Endocrinology Section at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Another recommendation from the group was that researchers start to examine grandchildren of DES-exposed women, as they too may have a potential for DES cancers.
Read the full paper DES Research Heats Up Again After Breast Cancer Finding on Oxford University Press, 18 August 1999.
DES DIETHYLSTILBESTROL RESOURCES
- Source DES and breast cancer studies.
- Diethylstilbestrol DES studies listed by topics and date of publication.