Re: Mold lawsuits are the pits!

January 6, 2006

Dotty, he might be right, but I don't think its up to the LAW to

recognize fear and suffering, its up to a jury. Fear of cancer is a

VERY legitimate tort because it is very expensive to maintain the

level of healthcare in which you can do cancer monitoring. I have read

in several papers that people who have been exposed to toxic mold

should be monitored regularly for cancer.

Also, many emplyers now do a health screen with database providers

which reveals if a person has made major insurance claims. So your

health situation can and OFTEN does prevent you from getting a good

job (with health insurance.) And one's health situation makes you

uninsurable via non-group insurance. I have read hundreds of stories

about people losing jobs because of health insurance issues, so even

if your health is okay, the cost of insuring someone with a history of

illness drives many businesses away from hiring them.

To be on the safe side, many businesses only hire younger, (under 35)

healthy looking people these days. If mold destroys your leptin

receptors you can easily find yourself struggling with weigt issues.

If you are also over 35, that is two strikes against you, add mold

illness's direct effects and the threat of other illnesseses like

cancer and you begin to realize why these toxins are used in warfare.

They DO kill.

And they go on killing for a long time..

They also destroy parts of your brain and nervous system. Luckily,

from what I have read, it is mostly 'white matter', not grey. But that

is still very important to your health, esp. your nerves and your

autonomous nervous system..

There may be cures -SOMEDAY- but there aren't any cures for most of

this that I am aware of, NOW, and there may never be, or more likely,

the COST of these cures may put them out of reach to the VAST majority

of people (like 99.999999999999%) of the millions of people mld has

surely effected.. And for most, they also will often arrive to late to

prevent the damages, deaths, etc. Dont forget, for each one who gets

to sue, thousands fall through the cracks in the system. But since

landlords, builders, etc. are on 'the honor system' and SUING IS THE

ONLY SANCTION THAT THEY FACE when they ignore their tenants/customers,

etc. health for financial gain, taking a gamble that they will not be

caught.. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE SYSTEM THAT ANY

WHO CAN, DO SUE.

Here is what Dr. Schaller says on his site:

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www.personalconsult.com

Cancer and Mold Toxins:

Another Way Indoor Mold Harms Humans

Dr. Wang and Groopman from the Environmental Health Sciences

Department at s Hopkins, published a useful article on the effects

of mold toxins on DNA published in Mutation Research -- a leading

cancer journal. They said clearly:

Mycotoxins are toxic fungal metabolites which are structurally

diverse, common contaminants of the ingredients of animal feed and

human food. To date, mycotoxins with carcinogenic potency in

experimental animal models include aflatoxins, sterigmatocystin,

ochratoxin, fumonisins, zearalenone, and some Penicillium toxins. Most

of these carcinogenic mycotoxins are genotoxic agents with the

exception of fumonisins, which is currently believed to act by

disrupting the signal transduction pathways of the target cells.

Aflatoxin B1 [is] a category I known human carcinogen and the most

potent genotoxic agent, is mutagenic in many model systems and

produces chromosomal aberrations, micronuclei, sister chromatid

exchange, unscheduled DNA synthesis, and chromosomal strand breaks, as

well as forms adducts in rodent and human cells....More strikingly,

the relationship between aflatoxin exposure and development of human

hepatocellular carcinoma ... was demonstrated by [other ] studies...

Mutat Res. 1999 Mar 8;424(1-2):167-81.

Aflatoxin Found In Human Breast Cancer Tissue

on et al. (1993) examined human breast cancer tissue for

evidence of the presence of aflatoxin, a recognized potent

carcinogenic mycotoxin. The researchers examined human DNA from a

variety of tissues and organs to identify and quantify aflatoxin

DNA-adducts. Such adducts are considered to be proof of the

mycotoxin's presence in a particular tissue. (These researchers had

already proved the value of this method in the detection of

aflatoxin-DNA adducts in tissue from a case of acute aflatoxin

poisoning in Southeast Asia.)

DNA from normal and tumorous tissue obtained from patients with cancer

of the breast was examined. Tumor tissues had higher aflatoxin-adduct

levels than did normal tissue from the same individual.

The result of this study is that it verifies the presence of

carcinogenic aflatoxin within the cancer tissue and thus implicates

aflatoxin as a cause of breast cancer.

Cyclosporin (A Mycotoxin) Causes Breast Cancer In Humans

Cyclosporin is a fungal derived drug. It is classified as a mycotoxin

in the mycology literature (Betina [1989]).

1. Vogt et al. (1990) reported the occurrence of de novo malignant

tumors occurring in 598 renal transplant recipients who were

immunosupressed with cyclosporin.

Eighteen of 598 patients receiving their first renal graft along

with cyclosporin treatment between 1981 and 1986 developed a

malignancy at a mean interval of 33 months. The cyclosporin-induced

cancers included breast cancer.

2. Escribano-Patino et al. (1995) reported the occurrence of breast

cancer as a complication of cyclosporin use in their series of kidney

transplant recipients.

3. Penn and First (1986) reported 88 tumors in eighty-seven organ

transplant recipients after the use of cyclosporin. Malignancies

appeared an average of 14 months after the cyclosporin treatment.

There was a surprising frequency of endocrine-related malignancies

(ovarian, testicular and breast) among these malignancies.

Aflatoxin Induces Malignant Changes In Human Breast Cells

Eldridge et al. (1992) noted that some environmental chemicals are

stored in human breast fat which are documented to be rodent mammary

carcinogens. These researchers stressed the importance of determining

the cancer potential of environmental agents in this key target

tissue.

An assay was developed for detecting cancer potential using cultures

of normal human breast epithelial cells derived from 5 different

women. A positive response was observed with aflatoxin.

The conclusion of this study was that aflatoxin causes normal human

breast cells to become cancerous.

Could Moldy Cheese Causes Breast Cancer?

One sample study is by Le et al. (1986), in a French case-control

study of 1,010 breast cancer cases and 1,950 controls with

nonmalignant diseases, found that breast cancer was found to be

associated with increased frequency of mold-fermented cheese

consumption.

Oxalic Acid (A Mycotoxin) Found In Breast Cancer Lesions

Going et al. (1990) found that weddellite (calcium oxalate) crystals

are present in calcifications found in the breast tissue of patients

with breast cancer. Calcium oxalate crystals are formed when calcium

binds with oxalic acid. In human and animal systems, this is a

protective process which considerably reduces the severe toxicity of

oxalic acid. Oxalic acid is a powerful corrosive agent and oxalate

salts are widely used for their cleaning and bleaching properties!

Oxalic acid happens to be a mycotoxin which can be produced by a

number of different fungal species. Some fungi produce such large

amounts of oxalic acid that they are used for commercial production of

the chemical.

Aspergillus niger fungal infection in human lungs produces large

amounts of oxalic acid which is extremely toxic to the blood vessels

and which may cause fatal pulmonary hemorrhages. Consequently, oxalic

acid (calcium oxalate crystals) in the sputum or lung specimens of

patients is also an indication of an Aspergillus infection of the

lung. These calcium oxalate crystals are the same as the calcium

oxalate found in breast cancers.

The presence of oxalates in the breast is indicative of the presence

of fungi interwoven within the stages of breast cancer development.

Since humans do not make oxalic acid themselves, this is an

appropriate conclusion.

Breast Oxalate Calcifications In Mammograms

et al. (1993) examined calcifications found in breast

mammograms and evaluated their relationship to the risk of subsequent

breast cancer. The presence, morphology, and distribution of

calcifications visualized on baseline mammograms of 686 women who

developed breast cancer over a 7- to 10-year follow-up period were

compared with those of 1,357 controls who remained cancer free. It was

found that there was a significant correlation between such

calcifications and subsequent development of breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Calcifications Decrease With Tamoxifen (Antifungal) Treatment

and Georgian- (1994) reported the regression of breast

cancer in four patients who had been treated with tamoxifen. The

patients were closely monitored with physical examination and

mammography for a minimum of 2 years.

In all cases, the features of malignancy which were seen on mammograms

regressed. These results were documented by a decrease in the number

of calcifications and in the size of spiculated masses. These results

suggest that these breast calcifications are dynamic in nature, being

able to regress as effective treatment reduces the cancer.

Comment

The presence of oxalate calcifications in the breasts of virtually

every patient with breast cancer, and their subsequent regression as a

result of treatment with the antifungal agent tamoxifen, points to the

strong possibility that there is a fungal role in this cancer. There

have even been reports of fungal cells growing out of cancer cells.

The existence of a viable fungal sub-forms--with its DNA co-mixed with

a human's own DNA--could well explain the bizarre appearance of the

DNA in cancer cells. Support for such a " science fiction " type

scenario is found in the observation that a lectin staining procedure,

used to find " invisible " fungi in tissue specimens, happens to

identify breast cancer cells. Normal cells do not stain with these

same lectin staining procedures.

The lectin stain is also taken up by strange multinucleated giant

cells which suggests that these cells may, in fact, be fungal cells.

This could explain the presence of oxalates in breast cancer tissue, a

metabolite produced by fungi and not by humans. It might also help

explain how breast cancer is caused by a number of fungal-fermented

foods, particularly those made with Baker's or Brewer's Yeast (both

being Saccharomyces cerevisiae), known producers of uric acid which

degrades to oxalic acid (Costantini [1989]).

Baker's yeast is used to make bread, a documented cause of breast

cancer in Japanese women. Brewer's yeast is used to make many

alcoholic beverages, all of which are known to cause breast cancer in

every country where the connection has been investigated, a fact which

is well documented. Other research some feel beer and wine mycotoxins

increase breast cancer above chance.

T-2 Toxin Causes Breast Tumors

Schoental et al. (1979) reported that breast cancers were induced in

rats which were dosed with T-2 Toxin.

T-2 Toxin is a Fusarium toxin frequently found in the human food

chain. The fact that T-2 Toxin induced breast cancer in an animal

model is most significant, for this cancer occurs so often in humans.

Furthermore, antibodies against Fusarium fungi are frequently found in

human blood. These fungi and their toxins are the most frequently

encountered contaminants found in animal feed and human foods. See

also Saito (1971) and Corrado (1971), both of whom induced breast

cancer in mice using moldy rice and its extracts.

Ochratoxin Causes Breast Tumors

Fibroadenomas in the mammary gland were found in over half of a group

of female mice which were dosed with ochratoxin (Boorman [1988]). In

humans, fibroadenoma is a documented risk factor for breast cancer

(Dupont et al. [1994]).

Ochratoxin Causes Breast Fibroadenomas

Huff (1991) investigated the carcinogenicity of ochratoxin, a

naturally occurring mycotoxin of the fungal genera Aspergillus and

Penicillium, which was studied in three strains of mice and in one

strain of rats.

It was found that fibroadenomas of the mammary glands were induced by

ochratoxin administration. In humans, fibroadenoma is a documented

long-term risk factor for breast cancer (Dupont et al. [1994]).

Penicillic Acid/Patulin Cause Breast Adenomas And Breast Sarcomas

Penicillic acid was found to induce mammary adenomas, as well as local

sarcomas and fibrosarcomas in mice and rats. Patulin was also reported

to cause mammary adenomas in mice and rats (Dickens and [1965],

Dickens [1967]). See also Ciegler et al. (1971).

Verrucarin Induced Breast Tumors

Jodczyk (1984) was able to induce breast tumors in mice by exposing

them to a derivative of the mycotoxin verrucarin E.

Moldy Rice Extract Causes Breast Cancer

Mammary cancers (breast cancers) were induced by feeding an alcohol

extract of moldy rice to animals (Corrado [1971]). See also Saito

(1971).

This is hardly a complete presentation of this topic, but it is merely

offered to allow reflection on the troubling action of some

mycotoxins.

I would like to thank the editorial research of three World Health

Organization Scholars for the sample references above:

A.V. COSTANTINI, M.D.

Head, World Health Organization (WHO)

Collaborating Center For Mycotoxins In Food

HEINRICH WIELAND, M.D.

Medical Director, World Health Organization (WHO)

Collaborating Center For Mycotoxins in Food

LARS 1. QVICK, M.D., Ph.D.

Co-Medical Director, World Health Organization (WHO)

Collaborating Center For Mycotoxins In Food

I APPRECIATE THEIR WORK, AND CAN NEITHER SUPPORT NOR OPPOSE THEIR FINDINGS.

PLEASE REVIEW THEM WITH THE LAWYERS IN THE LEGISLATURE, JUDICIARY AND

YOUR LOCAL TRAIL LAWYER'S, TO LEARN WHAT IS GOOD & ALLOWABLE MEDICAL

CARE FOR YOU. AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO RUN IT BY SOME UP-TO-DATE

PHYSICIANS.

www.personalconsult.com

Note: Reading this article assumes you have read the informed consent

on this site. Never self-treat based on this article. Always consult

licensed medical and mental health practitioners.

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On 1/6/06, dottykalm <dottykalm@...> wrote:

> I guess I am one with one of those " frivolous mold

> lawsuits " After nearly ruining my health, and my

> financial security that I have worked for all my

> life, I guess I don't have much of a case. My current

> attorney thinks he is too big into abestos claims, to

> handle mold claims. I spent over 80,000 out of pocket

> expenses to remediate the mold and rebuild my condo

> enough to sell it. I was so sick that I had to quit

> my job. But, I don't have much of a case. This

> attorney always reminds me that he has dying abestos

> clients that take priority. Any advice here?

>

> " Judi, I remind you of my dying clients to explain in

> context my schedule as i did when you asked me to take

> over your case. I have won over 1 million dollars in

> mold settlements in th elast year as a side job. I

> told you it was a small part of my practice and that

> unless they settled it would be a long time. The judge

> just reduced a 150,000 pain and suffering award to

> 50,000 because he said it was too high. If you are

> hoping this case will solve your finacial problems

> then you are setting yourself up for a fall. RI does

> not recognize " fear of cancer " as a compensable damage

> in a case. If you are displeased with me, then you

> will not hurt my feelings. i have turned down over 35

> mold cases in 4 months. I believe in your case but you

> have to understand reality. Why did the very

> experienced mediator, Bob Parillo, who is well

> respected and married to a judge state that our demand

> of 150,000 was way too high when you thought it as too

> low and the defense offered 12,000?

> Fwd: [ToxicMoldSurvivors] LATEST SCIENTIFIC

> ARTICLES---Molds / Mycotoxins and Human Injury

>

> I don't understand why you don't think I have much of

> a case. I am concerned that you feel that way,

> because if you feel that way, I don't know how you can

> fight for me. You keep mentioning your dying

> clients.....well, I could be in an earlier stage of

> dying because of that condo board.

>

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January 6, 2006

Can you get another lawyer? You should start looking around, even if

you decide not to..

He may be right.. You have to decide what you can live with.. It could

take a long time..

January 7, 2006

How exactly would you be monitored for cancer. It could start anywhere in the

body & you can't xray everything. Loni

LiveSimply <quackadillian@...> wrote: Dotty, he might be right, but I

don't think its up to the LAW to