What does DES stand for?

Diethylstilbestrol

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Nora Ben-Johnathan, a professor of cancer and cell biology at the University of Cincinnati, has focused on BPA because of its structural similarities to diethylstilbestrol, also known as DES, a chemical that increases cancer cell growth.

Life's stumbling blocks can get in the way of green-living steps

Oxidation of catechols to semiquinones and quinones is a mechanism of tumor initiation not only for endogenous estrogens, but also for synthetic estrogens such as hexestrol and diethylstilbestrol, a human carcinogen.

Catechol quinones of estrogens in the initiation of breast, prostate, ...

The first synthetic estrogen, diethylstilbestrol (DES), for example, is an endocrine disrupter.

Editor's note

Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic estrogen that was prescribed to > 2 million pregnant women in the mid-1900s.

Secondary sex ratio among women exposed to Diethylstilbestrol in utero

Economic constraints also mean that oral diethylstilbestrol is often used instead of LH-RH agonists or anti-androgens.

Prostate cancer in African men

In the 1970s diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen prescribed to pregnant women from the 1930s to the '70s to prevent miscarriage, was found to increase the risk of vaginal cancers in the women's daughters.

In the 1970s diethylstilbestrol (DES), an estrogen prescribed to ...

One group were fed a normal diet and another given a chemical called Diethylstilbestrol.

Everyday chemicals 'could be behind the obesity epidemic'

Certain risks associated with prenatal exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES) may be carried over to the next generation, according to results of a study of 463 women whose mothers had been exposed to DES prenatally and 330 whose mothers had not been exposed to the drug.

Can des risk be passed on?