No link between talcum powder and ovarian cancer, finds major study

It comes after Johnson & Johnson was ordered in 2018 to pay out $4.7 billion to 22 women who had claimed that asbestos in the company’s talcum powder products caused them to develop ovarian cancer. An appeal is underway.

In the 1970s, concern began to arise over the contamination of the mineral talc with asbestos, which often form alongside each other in nature. The link remained contested because of the low number of studies carried out over five decades, and some had statistically weak results. In the new paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers from various centers across the US therefore synthesized the data from four large studies which followed a quarter of a million women from 1982 to 2017.

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