{"id":309964,"date":"2026-06-17T01:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:09:12","slug":"thursday-on-cbs12-families-seek-answers-on-treasure-coast-brain-cancer-cases-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309964\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday on CBS12: Families seek answers on Treasure Coast brain cancer cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 For years, families on the Treasure Coast have asked whether glioblastoma cases in parts of St. Lucie County are connected \u2014 and whether something in the environment could be playing a role. Those concerns have never fully gone away. Now, CBS12 News is taking another look at the questions that have haunted families from Port St. Lucie to Fort Pierce for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Laura Cooper, a Port St. Lucie woman now battling the same deadly brain cancer that claimed her best friend\u2019s life years earlier. From her backyard, she can point across a canal to another family touched by the disease. <\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/16-year-old-boy-dies-shot-riding-bike-9mm-gun-suffering-apparent-gunshot-wound-suspect-attempted-homicide-tampering-with-evidence-fort-pierce-police-department-st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office-florida-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teen bicyclist shot in Fort Pierce dies after days in ICU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advocates say they are hearing from more families than ever, including children, while state health officials previously found no statistically significant increase in cases and did not designate the area a cancer cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Thursday at 5 a.m., CBS12 News will share the stories of families still searching for answers. Then, at 5:30 p.m., we\u2019ll air a full deep-dive report examining the history of the concerns, what the state found, what advocates say is happening now, and why some families are calling for health officials to take another look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 For years, families on the Treasure Coast have asked whether glioblastoma cases&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-309964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}