Word: stilbestrolized
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...injections of female sex hormones (plus an operation on the prostate, if necessary). Like castration, female hormones seem to slow down the growth of cancer cells. Drs. Charles Cornell Herger and Hans Richard Sauer recently reported in the American Journal of Surgery that 30% of their patients getting stilbestrol (a female sex hormone) "responded with regression or softening of the prostate...