Baby Powder and link to OVC

[meganrogers]

I know many of you know about the link between baby powder and OVC. Baby powder has tiny particles of asbestos. They tried to ban it several years ago, but decided it had such small doses of asbestos. The baby powder travels trough the tubes and remains in the ovaries to build up and later result in OVC. My doctor admitted this and I have have found it on many sights. My question is how many of us have used baby powder either in private areas or on the thighs? I wanted to see if I found a correlation of how many of us got to this point. I used it since 1984 and now have recurrent OVC.
Links: http://www.maacenter.org/asbestos/products/babypowder.php http://www.preventcancer.com/consumers/cosmetics/talc.htm http://www.asbestos.net/asbestos-products/baby-powder.html

If you want to find info on your own, just type in asbestos in baby powder.

Please let me know about your use of baby powder. Thank you.

[MaryMargaret387]

My doctor also told me about the problem with powder and OvCa. He said not to use it again. I to used it for years on my thighs. I did not know, so it is not my fault, but it is the fault of the govt., medical doctors that knew, and the powder companies that all know now. Shame on them. I use the Johns Hopkins site for my info, so here is the link there          http://ovariancancer.jhmi.edu/riskfctr.cfm

Below is from Wikipedia:  
Scientists have been aware of the toxicity of talc since the late 1960s, and in 1971 researchers found particles of talc embedded in 75 percent of the ovarian tumors studied.[8] However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers non-asbestiform talc, that is, talc which does not contain potentially carcinogenic asbestiform amphibole fibers, to be generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for use in cosmetics. [9]

Below is a warning from the American Medical Asso. concerning Talcum Powder:
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2008/09/29/41716.aspx

I threw out the powder and I tell everyone I see so I can save someone from going through this. I know there are other causes, but this is an easy fix.

[AnotherKatie]

I just read a book called "Not Just A Pretty Face".  It is all about the cosmetic industry and how the products are loaded with carcinogens.
Soap, deoderant, shampoo, creams, make up.... it's unreal.  AND the best part is how these products often have written on them "A portion of sales go to the fight against breast cancer...etc"  YET the stupid products contain chemicals known to cause cancer.

Johnson's baby shampoo contains the hazardous substances formaldehyde and dioxane, which are not listed on labels. The two chemicals are known to cause cancer in animals, and formaldehyde can also cause skin rashes.

I know, I know, people say "everything causes cancer" and you really can't make yourself nuts worrying about it BUT it is good to share information.  As I use up products, I am trying to make more informed choices when I buy replacements.  Read the labels and try to see what is in this stuff (although they say sometimes not everything is listed).  Oh and according to the book, they believe there is a link between hair dye and OVCA.  They also think nail polish and remover are very, very toxic.

[Mary 53]

When I saw this thread, I freaked a little bit. I tried to tell my husband years ago about the possibility that using powder in that area could cause the cells to mutate in the ovary after the product managed to travel up the falopian tube. He thought I was joking. Not that I use my spouse as a barometer to all of my concerns, but this is a topic that does not come up very often and I have always wondered if there was a connection here that we were missing.

I never had a doctor tell me there was a connection between using powder and the development of Ovarian Cancer, but around 1977 I shared an office with three women (we were all in our 20's) and when we had time for conversations, the topics were picked at random. The use of Feminine Hygiene sprays came up one day and I looked up to see several horrified looking faces. Several said they'd heard that using such products as well as talcum powder could put you at risk for Ovarian Cancer. From time to time since then, I have heard this concern brought up from time to time... mainly the concern about the powder. I think regarding the use of the sprays, I did hear that it was okay to spray the underware ... seemed that the problems arose if the skin of that area was sprayed directly.

I have probably used powder more than the average woman. The build of my body and the way I carried my weight in those days made it necessary to use powder all of the time unless I was wearing pantyhose. I was so very uncomfortable without powder and used it several times a day from the time I was about 15 until the late 1990's.

Severe Cervical Dysplasia came first when I was 45. Then when I was 47 malignant cells were found in a cyst that had been drained from my ovary. No more cancer was found during the hysterectomy.

This thread really hit home, though.

Mary

[Heidii]

My Gyn Oncologist told me about this and told me not to use any more powder. I am so sorry Jane, that you misunderstood this and hope your tomorrow will bring new light and good spirits.  This is so helpful and a well known fact, just look at Johns Hopkins causes for Ovarian Cancer, the American Cancer Society, and a dozen other places and you will find it as a cause for cancer. Women should know this before it is to late and obviously drs. are not telling us. How could it possibly be our fault???  My husband's granny used powder everyday and she had Ovarian Cancer. We need to scream out this message to every woman we see. I made my whole family throw out their powder a year ago. I did not see how one would construe this as a blame on our parts. If we don't tell people, then we need to accept the blame for hiding our heads under the covers and saying it is just another story.  There is proof by major cancer centers.  I understood that this is just one way to get Ovarian Cancer among several. Thanks for the positive help in getting the word out.

[Heidii]

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[jane65]

You're right Becky,
You did get dealt a really crappy hand and life is so unfair. We've done nothing to deserve this disease, and we just have to keep trying to find the way to defeat it,and live a normal life when we can.

I think about what Forest Gump said about life being just a box of chocolates, you never know which one you're gonna get.
I'd add : unless you poke a hole in the bottom of each one!
Wish we could have done that, we'd all have chosen a different way to go.

Have a good tomorrow,
Jane