The disease can be treated with success if it is found early, so we want to see patients with this history. Abnormalities of the urinary tract also occur in exposed women. Check with your mother to see if she took medication early in her pregnancy and ask her to attempt to locate medical records. If in fact your mother did take DES, then you should be examined. You may be examined at the Women's Health Care Clinic, 314-8190, or by your own private physician.
Cancer is very rare but has occurred.
These dates may be later if you were born in Mexico or Latin America. Published for the University of Maryland community, College Park community.