DES Action has been serving the DES-exposed community since 1978 and welcomes health care providers who give services to DES-exposed individuals. Contact us to inquire about being named on our Physician Referral List.

We urge health care providers to include a question on patient intake forms about DES exposure. It is part of an individual’s health history and has consequences for care. Specifically, DES Daughters require a special gynecological Annual Exam (even after a hysterectomy and menopause), and upon reaching the age of 40 they need yearly mammograms and clinical breast screenings because they are nearly two times as likely as unexposed women to get breast cancer. Click here for the Journal article on this research.

We would be happy to send your health care office, or clinic, DES informational brochures to share with your patients. Contact us with your name and mailing address.

DES Action is here to help, and can provide your exposed patients with valuable information they cannot get anywhere else. Please refer them to DES Action.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created a DES web site at www.cdc.gov/DES which included a link "For Health Care Providers" This is an important resource; however, it has not been updated with the recently identified breast cancer risk for DES Daughters. Read the journal article published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention.