Jackie white, 48, of Centerburg, Ohio, says he knows he is called “DES daughters” since her early teens.
White said her mother told me he took DES while pregnant. Synthetic oestrogen intended at the time for preventing miscarriage and childbirth complications. But a decade after White was born, the researchers found a hormone broke through the barrier of the uterus and left many children mothers who take hormones at the risk of reproductive complications.
Since then, she says she is hypervigilant when it comes to reproductive health and receive regular mammograms and Gynecology exam. But it’s not White low reproductive health that he needs to worry about. In 2010, white was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.
“I know the risk of Princess DES, I did everything they tell you to do, I’m a doctor, I devoted my filtering and knows about my chances,” said White. “But I’m nowhere near ready for breast cancer.”
White now is one of 53 Women suing 14 major manufacturers in the drug DES first ever lawsuit claiming a link between the DES and breast cancer.