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Celebration dinner held

IF YOU'VE been to Camp Artaban — or want io
know more about the Anglican summer camp —
you're invited to a Celebration Dinner on Friday,
April 14.

Camp Artaban, which operates out of offices at
North Vancouver’s St. Catherine’s Church, has
served approximately 40,000 campers since the camp
site on Gambier Island was established in 1923.

The dinner will consist of a multi-course gourmet

Chinese meal at the Flamingo House in Vancouver.

Featured at the dinner will be Camp Artaban
memorabilia from the 1920s to the present, campers
and staff old and new, door prizes — including a
three-day whale watching trip for two — and guest
speaker Herbert O’Driscoll, well-known authoz,
broadcaster and camp-goer.

Tickets to the fund-raising event are $75, $54 of
which is tax-deductible. They can be ordered by call-
ing the Camp Artaban office at 980-0391.

73 - Wednesday, March 29, 1989 - North Shore News

FILM SHOWN ON SHAW CABLE

The future is

uncertain for
D.E.S. children

INCREASED CHANCES of developing a rare form of
cancer and fertility problems are just some of the effects
being seen in the sons and daughters of women who took
the synthetic female hormone D.E.S. during their pregnan-

cies.

This is the subject of the Na-
tional Film Board’s presentation of
D.E.S.: An Uncertain Legacy,
which will be aired on Shaw
Cable’s Channel 27, at 5 p.m. and
8 p.m., Thursday, March 30, in
conjunction with D.E.S.
Awareness Week, March 26 to
April I.

The film contains invaluable in-
formation on D.E.S. and exposure
to the drug which may have af-
fected between 200,000 and
400,000 people born between 1941
and 1971, when the drug was in
use.

Many of those exposed are un-
aware of it.

Known by over 20 brand names
and prescribed as an estrogen,
cream or suppository, D.E.S. was
prescribed to pregnant women,
mostly as a miscarriage preven-
tative.

Although early testing showed
that the drug was ineffective, it
remained available for some 30
years, until it was found to cause a
rare form of cancer in D.E.S.
daughters, from one in 1,000 to
one in 10,000.

A small number of D.E.S.
daughters, all under 32 years, have
been affected, and the cancer can
be treated if discovered in the early
stages.

These daughters often have an
unusual discharge, can exhibit
structural abnormalities such as a
cervical ‘‘collar’? or “hood’? and
may have a higher rate of men-

' strual irregularities.

They are at a higher risk for
tubal (ectopic) pregnancies and
some have structural changes that
can make it difficult for them to
carry pregnancies to term.

‘Such is the case of the North

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By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

Shore representative of D.E.S. Ac-
tion Vancouver, Suzanne Prescott,
28, who twice gave birth
prematurely to baby girls who liv-
ed only a few hours.

Prescott then underwent a new
surgical procedure to have her
uterus tied shut, which together
with weeks of hospital bed-est
resulted in the birth of a son, now
11 months old.

Her brother has not yet had any
problems, although D.E.S. sons
also have an increased risk of
epididymas cysts, smafl and
undescended testes and possible
fertility problems.

“{’ve been through one heck of
a lot and I’m angry that the drug
was not properly tested,’ says
Prescott, who hopes to have
another baby in a few years.

She doesn’t blame doctors, or
her mother, who took the drug
because she wanted a baby.

“But it’s like thalidomide — ex-
cept that the abnormalities are in-
ternal. Still it killed my two
babies,’’ Prescott adds.

Use of the drug was more

prevalent in eastetn Canada and in
the U.S., where some class action
suits have been filed against phar-
maceutical companies.
. People born during the time
D.E.S. was in use.should find out
what drugs were taken by their
mothers during pregnancy and ob-
tain medical records.

For more information write
D.E.S. Action Vancouver, #302,
1720 Grant St., Vancouver B.C.,
VSL 2Y7 or telephone 255-8285.
Prescott can be reached at 985-

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