The family of a woman who died of ovarian cancer in 2014 has responded by filing an ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit, alleging her cancer was caused by talc baby powder.

The ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit was filed by Tennessee plaintiffs Mathias P, Michael P., and Terry H. on behalf of Meredith C., who died of ovarian cancer on Feb. 22, 2014. The plaintiffs are Meredith’s next of kin.

According to the ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit, Meredith regularly used talcum powder products as part of her daily hygiene routine starting in 1943 and continuing through Aug. 27, 2013.

On that date, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which the lawsuit alleges was directly caused by the consistent exposure to talc powder products in the genital area.

The ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit was filed on July 19, 2017—just over three years after Meredith’s untimely death. The plaintiffs filed this ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit on multiple counts, including failure to warn, defective manufacture and design, breach of express and implied warranties, negligence, fraud, fraudulent concealment, civil conspiracy, loss of consortium, wrongful death, and survival action.

This ovarian cancer wrongful death lawsuit is part of a larger group of lawsuits gathered together into a single MDL, or multidistrict litigation.

Baby Powder Ovarian Cancer

Baby powder products have been widely used for years—especially Johnson & Johnson’s Shower to Shower products. While baby powder is obviously primarily used for babies, it has also been widely marketed as a feminine hygiene product.

Many women have incorporated baby powder into their daily hygiene routines. Johnson & Johnson has allegedly encouraged women for decades to use its Shower to Shower talc baby powder products as part of a regular feminine hygiene routine.

By marketing the product as safe and effective in this usage, lawsuits claim, Johnson & Johnson was misrepresenting the actual safety of its product, concealing risks it allegedly knew about.

Ovarian Cancer

Unfortunately, the use of talc-based baby powder products has been linked with ovarian cancer, which is the fifth leading cause of cancer fatalities in U.S. women, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Because there are few early symptoms of ovarian cancer, this disease is usually not discovered until much later, in the last stages of the cancer, which makes this baby powder side effect even more dangerous.

Filing an Ovarian Cancer Wrongful Death Lawsuit

If you or someone you love has used Johnson & Johnson’s Shower to Shower or a similar talc powder product, especially as part of a regular hygiene routine, and have since been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, you may be able to file a baby powder lawsuit.

While filing a baby powder lawsuit cannot take away the pain and suffering of ovarian cancer, and cannot bring a loved one back to life, it can help to alleviate the financial burden caused by medical expenses and lost wages.

The Ovarian Cancer Wrongful Death Lawsuit is Case No. 3:17-cv-05263-FLW-LHG, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.