Recent high-profile court cases have raised concerns that women who use talc-based powder around their genital area may be at a risk for ovarian cancer, but a new study says that might not be the case.
Does talcum powder cause cancer? A legal and scientific battle ragesThe study, one of the largest on this topic to date, published Tuesday in the medical journal JAMA. It found there was no statistically significant association between genital talc use and ovarian cancer. However, the study notes it may have been"underpowered" to identify a small increase in risk in part because there weren't many cases of ovarian cancer among the women studied.
In 2006, the International Agency for Research in Cancer, which falls under the World Health Organization, classified the use of talc in the genital area as"possibly carcinogenic to humans," but this is considered its weakest classification as a cancer cause, meaning that the evidence isn't entirely clear.The American Cancer Society also says talc's relation to cancer"is less clear" and"findings have been mixed.
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