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Baltimore Talc Lawsuit: The Lancet Retraction Changes Everything for Your Cancer Claim If you used Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder for years — maybe decades — and a doctor later said the word “cancer,” you are reading this at a moment that is both terrifying and, finally, clarifying. On March 25, 2026, one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world formally retracted a 1977 paper that Johnson & Johnson’s defense lawyers used for nearly half a century to argue their talc was safe. The Lancet’s editors called the paper what it was: a piece of corporate ghostwriting, secretly shaped by J&J, published under a scientist’s name without anyone knowing the company had reviewed and edited it before it went to print. That retraction does not win your case. But it does something almost as important: it strips away the single most powerful scientific shield J&J has been hiding behind since the Carter administration. And if your case is in Maryland — if you or someone you love was diagnosed with ovarian cancer or mesothelioma after a lifetime of using talc-based products — a Baltimore jury has already shown what happens when twelve people in this city…