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Can Accidental Contact With Mercury Or Hereditary Reasons Cause Spinal Meningioma?
I absorbed the mercury from a broken thermometer through my finger about 30 years ago. Could this have caused the Spinal Meningioma that I have had removed from C1. I f not, what causes them? Are they inherited as my mother died froma Malignant brain tumour, as has a 1st cousin and a niece has a tumour on her Pituritry gland?
Mon, 27 Oct 2014
Mercury has no proven link with meningioma. Certain chemicals like mercury can predispose to blood cancers but the association is not definite. Also meningiomas are not hereditary. Either it is coincidence or all your family members might have got some environmental factor that is predisposing to cancer
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