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n. - A potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry.

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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).
  • The synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) was given to pregnant women from 1938 to 1971 to prevent miscarriages.
  • DES, or diethylstilbestrol, was a drug widely prescribed to pregnant women in the 1940s and 1950s to prevent miscarriage.
  • Another compound invented during that era, diethylstilbestrol, turned out to be more powerful as an estrogen, so bisphenol
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