"Talc" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Finely powdered native hydrous magnesium silicate. It is used as a dusting powder, either alone or with starch or boric acid, for medicinal and toilet preparations. It is also an excipient and filler for pills, tablets, and for dusting tablet molds. (From Merck Index, 11th ed)
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D013627
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.524.500.850 D01.578.725.500.800 D01.837.725.700.760.535.800
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Talc" by people in Profiles.
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Genital Powder Use and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in the Ovarian Cancer in Women of African Ancestry Consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2021 09; 30(9):1660-1668.
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Genital powder use and risk of uterine cancer: A pooled analysis of prospective studies. Int J Cancer. 2021 06 01; 148(11):2692-2701.
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Association of Powder Use in the Genital Area With Risk of Ovarian Cancer. JAMA. 2020 01 07; 323(1):49-59.