
NC State alumni report 150+ cancer cases possibly stemming from contaminants in shut-down campus building
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North Carolina State University alumni have reported more than 150 cancer cases possibly stemming from Poe Hall, which contained dangerous levels of PCBs, a probable carcinogen, in classrooms.
"Maybe my body isn't the problem." "It's something I'm going to have every day for the rest of my life." "I think we're going to see it more and more in these buildings that were built during that range — 1971 to 1979." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"I was finishing up my finals, and I was going in for a physical at the health center. … I was having night sweats for weeks and weeks before this, and I could not figure out what was happening," NC State alumna Christie Lewis told Fox News Digital. "I was having to get up in the middle of night and change clothes completely. And then I would fall asleep. And I had to put a towel down. It honestly took me weeks to even tell my husband about them because I kept on forgetting about it because it was just in the middle of the night."
Lewis attended NC State between 2007 and 2012. She began studying in the business school and eventually ended up in the education department, where she took classes in Poe Hall, which housed NC State's College of Education and Department of Psychology, "for about four years," she said.