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Category Description: Examines the link between antibiotics and the risk of breast cancer as well as diethylstilbestrol (DES), a drug used to prevent miscarriage between 1940-1960.

Antibiotic Use and Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - Question and answer on antibiotics and breast cancer risk, from the National Cancer Institute.
Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC) - UK-based advisory committee evaluating the cancer potential of dietary and environmental chemicals.
NCI Cancer Facts: DES: Questions and Answers - Review of the issue of the effect of DES (diethylstilbestrol), used in 1940s through 1960s for miscarriage prevention, on risk of breast cancer. From the National Cancer Institute.