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    3 months ago

    It’s more like the asbestos found around talc deposits:

    “But it could not rule out that the talc in some studies was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos.”

    “A causal role for talc could not be fully established,” according the agency’s findings published in The Lancet Oncology.

    Because the studies were observational and so could not prove causation, “there isn’t a smoking gun that the talc use causes any increased cancer risk,” he added.