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  • n  a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

  • One of the few forms of cancer which can be relieved to some extent by medication is cancer of the prostate gland, and one of the most effective relieving agents is stilbestrol .
  • Last week gynecologists marked well a curious new synthetic drug called stilbestrol.
  • The facts: diethylstilbestrol (stilbestrol for short) is a synthetic of the same chemical family as the female sex hormones (estrogens).

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