Daughters of stilboestrol.

Enlarged Prostate Treated with Stilboestrol

Stilboestrol and vaginal clear-cell adenocarcinoma syndrome.

A vaginal clear-cell adenocarcinoma developed in a young woman who had been exposed in utero to maternal stilboestrol treatment. During 1940-71 in the UK some 7500 women were given stilboestrol during pregnancy. Thus more cases are likely to appear and clinicians caring for young women should be alert to this possibility.

Daughters’ lived experience of mother's cancer

Growing cancer in these decades and its effects on all aspects of a patientchr('39')s life causes more research on this illness. Research indicates the incidence of life-threatening illnesses especially in parents makes troubles in family memberchr('39')s life especially in childrenchr('39')s life. Considering the importance of the role of mothers on their childrenchr('39')s conditions with emp...

Development of the infantile mouse uterus: the effect of stilboestrol.

Arecent study (Dullaart, Kent & Ryle, 1975) showed high serum gonadotrophin levels in infantile mice. Initially, the concentration ofLH and FSH rose steadily, the former reaching a peak concentration around 9 days after birth then falling by 13 days to the range found in pubertal serum. The concentration of FSH, however, continued to rise until 13 days. The rise in endogenous gonadotrophin leve...

The Lost Daughters of Gergonne

Given a triangle center we can draw line segments from each vertex through the triangle center to the opposite side, this splits the triangle into six smaller triangles called daughters. Consider the following problem: Given a triangle S and a rule for finding a center find a triangle T , if possible, so that one of the daughters of T , when using the rule is S. We look at this problem for the ...