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DES (Diethylstilboestrol or Stilboestrol)
The DES (Diethylstilboestrol or Stilboestrol) website provides information:
- about DES
- for women who took DES while pregnant
- for DES sons and daughters
DES is a hormone drug (a synthetic oestrogen) that was prescribed in good faith to many pregnant women from 1938 to the 1980s.
