Anti-miscarriage drug doubles breast cancer risk in daughters.

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Anti-miscarriage drug doubles breast cancer risk in daughters Sarah Boseley, health editorTuesday August 8, 2006The Guardian The daughters of the thousands of women who took an anti-miscarriage pill more than 40 years ago are at increased risk of breast cancer, it was revealed yesterday. The drug, known as DES (diethylstilbestrol), was commonly prescribed for pregnant women between the 40s and 60s if doctors thought they were at risk of miscarrying and sometimes also for morning sickness. There are no definite figures for the number of women who took it, but research suggests there may have been as many as 200,000 in the UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1839277,00.html "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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