The 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.
The study says there's a possible association between powder and ovarian cancer among women who had no history of hysterectomy or tubal ligation, but this"finding should be considered only exploratory and hypothesis generating." If future research shows this association, there could be some truth to the hypothesis that the powder may be irritating or inflaming the reproductive tract.
"There is still uncertainty about whether any such association exists. If it does exist, there is uncertainty about whether the powder itself is what causes any increase in cancer risk. And there's also uncertainty about what the size of the risk increase is, if it there is one," McConway adds.
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