Talcum Powder Lawsuits for Ovarian Cancer - Plaintiffs Have No Proof

Freep | 6/28/2016 | CharlesOConnell

[T-Bone Texan]

"...The claim is that talcum powder contains trace amounts of asbestos. ..."

I checked my scrote - no tumors that I can see, and talc is invaluable to scrotes in Texas in the summer.

[Albion Wilde]

My mother was a prolific user of talcum powder and developed a bowling ball size ovarian cancer tumor. Talc is a first cousin to asbestos.

I had a friend -- same thing. Horrible death. Don't use powder, ladies. Get a ceiling fan and lie under it spread eagle to dry after your shower. Besides, your husband will enjoy the view.

[pfflier]

This is part of our addiction to junk science hysteria. Remember underarm antipersperants causing breast cancer and Dow-Corning going bankrupt over silicon breast implants? Later research showed no correlation with the ambulance chaser claims.

The sleazeball lawyers plant the dis-information and force the plaintiff to prove themselves innocent.

[DPMD]

the ugly truth about class action suite for the class is that the settlement is immediately reduced by 25% for the lawyers, then 38% off the top for the government. So, members of the class, seduced by promises of big bucks actually get only 37% of the ordered settlement, while the lawyers rake in 25% from every single class member. Justice defined.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Now they're saying there are a number of potential cancer sites which are sex-hormone sensitive. One such site is the ovary. Supposedly ovarian cancer has decreased worldwide due to women taking oral contraceptives. So take those pills, there, that's a good girl.

Another such hormone-sensitive site is mammary tissue. All fine except that with mammary tissue, the birth control pill significantly increases the incidence of breast cancer.

Hey lawyers: factor that into the worldwide female cancer morbidity and mortality rates, and get back to me as soon as you can, OK?

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>My daughter-in-law’s grandmother recently died from ovarian cancer. She raised DIL, who tells me grandma used talcum powder all the time<<<

Did she eat meat? Did she take Aspirin? Did she Drink, Smoke? You get the picture.

My Mother used Talcum Powder and she was also a lifelong Smoker. She died at 79 and not from Ovarian Cancer or Lung Cancer.

Cause and effect is a difficult thing to prove unless the subjects are Rats in a controlled clinical environment. Even then, the Rats are given dosages of whatever suspected Carcinogen that are beyond any normal usage by Humans.

[sneakers]

Yep, I get that. I’m only telling what DIL told me. DIL’s granddad also died of cancer - lung cancer, and so did his son - my DIL’s dad. Seems it might be a genetic thing in their family - on both sides, as others have died of cancer on her grandma’s side as well. DIL is 28 and so afraid she will be next.

My MIL is of British descent and her family at lots of stuff that is supposed to be really bad for your heart (like Yorkshire pudding - yum!) She is 88 and going strong in spite of losing part of her small intestine to infection. Her heart is strong. I firmly believe genetics plays a huge part of our health.