Former Michigan State student says she got cancer after using chemicals school called 'harmless'

A former Michigan State grad student blamed her thyroid cancer on the school, which allegedly told her that "exposure was harmless" when she worked with various pesticides and herbicides, she and her lawyers said on Monday. LingLong Wei was diagnosed with thyroid cancer on June 26 last year in a health downturn that's "directly related to events that took place during her time" at MSU from 2008 and 2011 pursuing a master’s degree in horticulture, according to a lawsuit filed in Ingham County Circuit Court.