Johnson & Johnson Lawsuit

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EZLiving66
EZLiving66 Member Posts: 1,482 Member
in Ovarian Cancer #1

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/02/24/jandj-must-pay-72-million-for-cancer-death-linked-to-talcum-powde/21317714/?icid=maing-grid7|maing9|dl2|sec1_lnk3&pLid=-1975688744

I don't have ovarian cancer but UPSC - a uterine cancer that is treated like ovarian cancer.  I saw this article this morning that Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay for knowingly selling a product they knew as far back as the 1980s could cause cancer.

Love,

Eldri

 

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  • ConnieSW
    ConnieSW Member Posts: 1,679 Member
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    It must go back

    farther than that because I've known since I was a young woman, well before my daughter was born in '73.  By then, they were also discouraging its use on babies because it could be inhaled.

  • debrajo
    debrajo Member Posts: 1,095 Member
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    further

    They will find it goes much further back than 73.  My mother and I used "Shower to Shower" powder since the mid 60's It was all the rage and in Texas in the summer you put powder EVERYWHERE...HEAVY !  Mother used Johnson and Johnson baby powder on me several times a day way back in 1951, during the days of cloth diapers.  They knew the talc was bad to breath many years before that.  Debra

  • mopar
    mopar Member Posts: 1,972 Member
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    HEARD ABOUT THIS YEARS AGO

    And I don't think anything came of it.  I, too, was a 'baby powder/talc' baby.  I was born in 1954.  We even used it way beyond that, as many of you did.  On a sumburn, for 'cooling', etc., etc.  I had OVCA twice.  Does anyone know if anyone was ever able to support the claim and what came of it?  Just curious.

    Blessings, Ladies!

    Monika

  • EZLiving66
    EZLiving66 Member Posts: 1,482 Member
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    mopar said:

    HEARD ABOUT THIS YEARS AGO

    And I don't think anything came of it.  I, too, was a 'baby powder/talc' baby.  I was born in 1954.  We even used it way beyond that, as many of you did.  On a sumburn, for 'cooling', etc., etc.  I had OVCA twice.  Does anyone know if anyone was ever able to support the claim and what came of it?  Just curious.

    Blessings, Ladies!

    Monika

    Click on the link I posted.

    Click on the link I posted.  Yesterday was the first lawsuit that the family of an ovarian cancer victim won and was awarded a cash settlement - $72 million from Johnson & Johnson!!  Of course J&J will appeal but it's a start.

  • kikz
    kikz Member Posts: 1,345 Member
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    I have used

    powder all my life.  I'm sure my mom used it on me as a baby.  I used Shower to Shower and the kind in the round containers with a big powder puff.  That was a common gift back in the day.  My mom used it as much and of course longer than I did.  Strangely enough but thankfully at 91 she has never had cancer.  I guess it's the luck of the draw.  When I was pregnant with my son, I had a pre-birth meeting with the pediatrician.  He said I'm sure you are getting a lot of gifts of baby powder and lotion but put them all away.  He had me only use cornstarch on my son and I believe it was Eurcerin or Lubriderm cleanser.  

    Some years before my diagnosis I happened to read about talc and ovarian cancer.  I was using Johnson's baby powder (on myself) and immediately switched to the cornstarch only version which I'm still using.  I guess it was too late.  I suppose we can second-guess ourselves for a lot of our past actions but it is what it is.

    Karen

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