Beware of talc. New American research suggests that women who regularly use talcum powder to keep skin fresh actually increase their risk of developing ovarian cancer by nearly a quarter.
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Beware of talc. New American research suggests that women who regularly use talcum powder to keep skin fresh actually increase their risk of develop ovarian cancer by nearly a quarter.
Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, United States, have warned against dust particles applied close to the genital areas, which can travel through a woman's body and trigger inflammation that allows cancer cells to thrive. According to the Daily Mail, the team analyzed data from 8.525 women diagnosed with ovarian cancer and compared the use of talcum powder with that of 9.800 women who remained cancer-free.
The results, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, showed that regularly applying the dust particles after a bath or shower it increased the risk of ovarian cancer by 24 percent. In the past, several studies have tried to investigate the link between dust and tumors. But the data now collected from eight separate studies attempt to give a definitive answer.
This is the only way to beat ovarian cancer, also known as the "silent killer" due to the fact that many symptoms appear only when it is already too advanced: understand what triggers it to prevent it.
Roberta Ragni
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