Ug, what really sucks about 20th century medicine, is the many negative side effects from supposedly miracle, life saving drugs like DES. Instead of saving lives, DES, ruined lives. Outraageously, look where DES had its beginnings, at the prestious Harvard School of Medincine. It makes me cringe, you know, to think it took lay people to make the association between DES and teenaged vaginal deformities, and well, that's when they finally banned DES.
Anyway, I wonder if I was exposed to DES, being the baby after my mother had a miscarrage. I'll never know since I am sure my parents would never tell me even if she did take it. Nobody wants to think they caused your cancer, you know.
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Robin
2002- dx her2 positive DCIS/bc TX Mast, herceptin chemo
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