Word: herbst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer-causing. Yet in the Morning After pill, a dose 168,000 times as great as that found in food from DES-fed cows is given to unsuspecting women. Though banned from our food, the FDA has not banned DES from our bodies. The danger, according to Dr. Herbst of Massachusetts General Hospital, is that this massive dose of DES might "stimulate the growth of already existent pre-cancerous cells." According to a fact sheet published by Advocates for Medical Information at the University of Michigan, "The Morning After pill is 100% DES. DES has been known to cause cancer...
...Arthur L. Herbst, '53. Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Howard Ulfelder, '32. Meigs Professor of Gynecology, and Dr. David C. Paskanzer '50. Associate Professor of Neurology reported the possible cancer link last April in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...statement released Wednesday, Herbst said "We feel the logical next step is to have the FDA undertake a national surveillance program of all young women in the at-risk population--those women whose mothers were given the drug...
...cancer. In women under 50, vaginal cancer had been virtually unknown. Now at least a score of cases in teen-agers and women up to age 22 have been found in the U.S. The first seven, all detected since 1966, were reported a year ago by Drs. Arthur Herbst and Robert Scully of Boston's Vincent Memorial Hospital, the women's division of Massachusetts General. Another Boston doctor discovered an eighth case. The doctors then could not even hazard a guess to explain this sudden cluster of rarities. Moreover, all but one of the cancers were...