*From  WHO  World Health Organization (via Toxins Awareness Group):  

paint solvents (such as 2-butoxyethanol) are carcinogenic, 

painters having a 40% higher chance of  lung cancer 

and 20% higher of stomach, bladder, larynx, etc cancers, 

while their children are at increased risk of leukaemia and brain tumours.

What Happened to Thelma

opinion... what I think and why

I met a very fine woman, Thelma, who died about 2 years ago from a brain tumor.  She was wife of a prominent banker and gave of her time to Women's Aglow as Area President of Central Illinois.  Her friend, Helen, said that no one gets a brain tumor without the cancer starting somewhere else... However, the autopsy indicated it was a brain tumor only.  I thought 12-20-02 of the information above quoted. 

I called Helen today and asked, 

"Did one of Thelma's parents have some strong chemical exposure?"  

Helen thought a moment & said... 

"Once we were driving by a chemical plant, and Thelma shared that her father and brother worked at that plant" 

I also thought, that if she was a child of a chemically overexposed father,

he would not still be alive, 

as Thelma was about 50. 

Helen continued, "Thelma's dad died when she was little."