A patient explains that her mother took diethylstilbestrol (DES) during her pregnancy. The nurse knows that this increases the patient's risk of which disease process?

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Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic form of estrogen that was prescribed between the early 1940s and 1971 to prevent miscarriage, premature labor, and related complications of pregnancy. Research later found that daughters of women who took DES during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing clear cell adenocarcinoma, a rare type of cancer of the vagina and cervix.

A Patient Explains That Her Mother Took Diethylstilbestrol (DES) During