ABSTRACT
Reginald Lewis’s death in 1993 was unexpected. The 50-year-old successful lawyer, businessman, and chief executive officer of TLC Beatrice International-a major international foods company-developed a brain tumor, an abnormal growth of cells in the brain. The tumor was malignant, meaning that the mass of cells grew and spread, crowding the adjacent brain tissue. Malignant tumors are usually life threatening
When doctors were asked about Lewis’s apparently sudden illness and death, some offered a shocking conclusion. Some proposed that Lewis’s constant use of his cell phone caused the malignant tumor, resulting in a diagnosis of cancer, the proximal cause of death.
