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...Kistner suggested combinations of progestational hormones and estrogens, like those used in contraceptives such as Enovid, for women aged roughly from 40 to 50. What about those who live much longer? They are no longer in hormonal imbalance, he replied, but many of them suffer from hormonal deficiency states. These produce such symptoms as "dowager's hump," excessive wrinkles, and osteoporosis (brittle bones). "If a woman has these symptoms," Dr. Kistner declared, "she should get estrogens, not every day, but in cycles. Or on the off chance that these might encourage cancer, she could have combinations, such as Enovid...
...cancers to effect a faster cure. But first they had to make the cancers grow lustily, and this they did by giving the rats a variety of hormones. Among them were progestin and an estrogen, hormones which are combined in G. D. Searle & Co.'s famed Enovid (pronounced En-ah-vid) contraceptive pills...
Because there is still a doubt as to just what effect pills such as Enovid and its competitors may have on human breast cancer, manufacturers specify that they should not be given to women with this disease. Whether this caution should be modified will be determined soon-not in laboratory rats, not in the stock market, but in the health records of thousands of women who have been taking the pills since...
...length of time that a woman can continue taking the pills safely is still uncertain. FDA has set the recommended limit for Enovid and Ortho-Novum at four years, and of Enovid-E at three years, though it is holding the newest pills to two years for the present. There has been some speculation that long-term use of the pills might postpone the menopause and leave women fertile far beyond nature's normal age limit of 45 to 50. But women who were nearing the menopause when they started on the pills several years ago have since...
Nobody knows just how many women are "on the pills," because manufacturers keep sales figures secret. Searle estimated at the turn of the year that 1,600,000 women were taking Enovid for contraception, and the company is now manufacturing 3,000,000 pills a day. All told, the number of U.S. women using them is probably edging toward 3,000,000. And the manufacturers are almost certainly right in their calculation that the market will continue to grow. Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, one of the original investigators, first in Puerto Rico and now in Mexico, says...