Is there a cancer risk to women from talcum powder?

[SteveB]

If this is true, this a bigger story than smoking causes cancer, considering this is what every parent uses on babies bums. Is it all Talc, or just the one from Johnson and Johnson??

This scares me

It is all talc. I heard stories about this decades ago. Most men involved in sport would use talc to avoid rubbing and chaffing and knowledgeable folks would have warned that it caused cancer in women and that men should use it sparingly and carefully and avoid breathing the dust.
However, the risk, if it exists, is thought to be very small.

Now, excuse me, but I must start a thread about the stories I have heard about diet Coke!!!!