Talc Powder and Ovarian Cancer: What's the Science?

Medscape

 The fact that talc is even being questioned as an ovarian cancer risk may surprise some professionals, said Daniel Cramer, MD, ScD, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and a prominent researcher in this field.

"Some clinicians — even some gynaecologists — will never have heard of this association," he told Medscape Medical News. "I've had clinicians say to me, 'Talc? Do they still sell it?'"

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