Hundreds Of Alumni Diagnosed With Cancer Took Classes At Shut-Down Building By Jason Hall April 1, 2024 Photo: Google Earth North Carolina State University continues to investigate the unofficial link between a recently closed campus building to the cancer cases of more than 150 alumni, FOX News reports. Local Raleigh news outlet WRAL initially raised concerns about the cancer cases in November 2023, one month after PCB levels were reported to be at more than 38 times the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for building materials inside five rooms at Poe Hall, which was officially closed shortly after WRAL's report. “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,” said NC State alumna Christie Lewis, who eventually took classes at Poe Hall after switching her major to education while attending NC State from 2007 to 2012, via 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 was diagnosed with thyroid cancer while still in college and discovered a lump on her neck months later, which was diagnosed as angiosarcoma. Poe Hall, which was constructed in 1971 when PCBs in materials were still common prior to being prohibited by the next decade, was attended by 152 alumni who were later diagnosed with cancer, though the cases have not officially been linked to the building, nor officially categorized as a "cluster," according to FOX News. NC State is continuing to investigate the situation and has launched a webpage with updates since closing down Poe Hall last November. “The university remains committed to doing the right things to ensure this is a safe place to work, learn and live,” Chancellor Randy Woodson said in a statement shared on the page. NC State said it anticipates "the building will remain closed through at least the end of 2024, and we are committed to keeping our community updated on our progress and the latest testing results throughout this process," on the webpage.
I quickly read that title as cancer hot pockets and was excited that we finally had a hot pockets thread. Miss three cheese quesadilla.
sad and scary. reminiscent of the phillies/astroturf story recently: https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/...ioblastoma-cancer-phillies-1980-20230307.html
Here's a wayback link for that article https://web.archive.org/web/2023030...ioblastoma-cancer-phillies-1980-20230307.html
If you live within 10 miles of an oil refinery you’re 50 times more likely to get cancer according to a University of Texas study.
my dad spent 43 years at a BP/Amoco oil refinery, he died at 65, he had 5 separate types of cancer when he passed 5 different fucking types- he never smoked or drank I spent two summers there while at Miami doing summer help with the Fitters, nothing lived inside the walls. I saw no weeds, grass, nothing- I remember bringing it up to people and everyone just shrugged
there aren’t that many honestly-155 total but the majority are straight line micro regional refineries the top ten refineries by size produce a crazy percentage of refined crude products and are concentrated in one area of the USA (Gulf Coast) those are the cancer problem areas
Google “cancer alley”… “Cancer Alley is the regional nickname given to an 85-mile (137 km) stretch of land along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains over 200 petrochemical plants and refineries.”
if you think it's bad here, China and India are probably giving their citizens cancer by the million. they're doing a whole Industrial Revolution thing over there and with just as little of a concern for safety as their Western counterparts who came before them.
One of the formative radicalizing things a person can go through in the US is reading about the fallout of superfund sites Places like those and these refineries are lunacy and everyone in corporate should literally be tortured by everyone affected
Iowa is coming hard for this title. Fastest growing cancer rate, second overall in cancer rate, and the only state that increased last year. State lawmakers letting farmers do whatever they want, and apparently the thing they want to do most is put cancer in our drinking water.
My brother's neighborhood friend during early childhood was diagnosed with osteosarcoma as a child. He and my brother hung out a lot and only at his house, never at ours. A transmission tower was more or less on their property within a hundred yards of their house, with power lines impossible not to play under. My brother was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his early 20s and passed away within three years. There are under 1,000 new cases of osteosarcoma per year in the US. Though there are studies claiming no evidence of a link, there are others that do find a link (example one, two) between power lines and childhood cancer. Coincidences happen all the time, but this one I have a hard time believing.
Salem Oregon has (or had) a pocket with super high rates of childhood osteosarcoma. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/sto...d-west-salem-cancer-cases-set-begin/12653507/
Lost my mom to brain cancer 12 years ago. Since then 2 of her childhood friends that grew up in the same neighborhood have passed too. The incidence rate is 3 in 100,000. Can’t be a coincidence.
The power line stuff always seems like nonsense to me. The electrical field falls off rather quickly and the magnetic field is pretty weak.
Yup, read a study recently about how one of the strongest growing correlations in our country right now is cancer rates and proximity to mass crop farming. Places like Iowa are fucked because you know no one is going to vote to regulate the farmers.
Yea it’s not good. Our Chancellor, who almost certainly had some role in whatever cover up has happened, is retiring this summer so it’ll be the next saps problem to deal with.
Harvard did a Six Cities Study on the effect of particulate matter on health. Steubenville, Ohio was one of the six, back in the 70’s when it had a steel industry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Six_Cities_study 26% more likely to die if you lived in Steubenville. I grew up about 15 miles away, and fortunately up wind. In the Summer when smog was bad, you could smell sulfur in the air from steel and coke.
Duke energy dumped all their coal ash here and covered it up. I have water purifiers/filters on all kitchen and bath faucets at my house. Erin Brockovich was involved and then Covid happened. Idk what’s been done since.
Well, I’m 8.9 miles from supersite Turbocombustor Technology Inc. in Stuart, FL and have cancer. So it checks out.
the great part is one of Louisiana Senators, a doctor, got offended when Biden referenced this. He always denies it’s from chemicals and instead they’re all just fat smokers https://www.nola.com/news/environme...98b5dd56-665c-11eb-993d-ab9537e3b12f.amp.html
Most likely can expand the radius to add East Palestine and everything in-between. It’s only a matter of time before it’s confirmed as a cancer hot spot thanks to Norfolk Southern.
2nd round of 8 chemo treatments. Infinitely better than the end of radiation which was hopefully something that no one on here has to go through. Lots of minor side effects like not being able to drink or touch cold things every other week. I lose weight but gain as much back as possible on the off weeks. So far, I am down 15 lbs. from where I started pre diagnosis.
could easily have been another environmental factor in play, Schadenfred if you don’t mind me asking what general area did you grow up in?
What about cell towers? I seem to remember a study being published showing incidents of childhood cancer being higher in schools that were within x distance of a cell tower
Not cancer but similar, there is a courthouse in Massachusetts where two judges and two support staff that shared an office were all diagnosed with ALS within 20 years of each other.
Our old competiton had like an 80 percent cancer rate for anyone that worked in that building. I say old because both the owner and his wife died of cancer.
Home sweet home! Another fun fact. Used to work a summer gig at one of those refineries. Was working out in tank farm and went grab lunch at home (as I did indeed live within 10 miles of the refinery), but had trouble getting back. Called my supervisor to let him know traffic was backup up down River Road. He informed me that I was not needed for the rest of the day due to... https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-fuel-tank-fire