childhood cancer

For more than a decade, a medical device equipment sterilization plant emitted carcinogenic air pollution in Central Fort Myers, creating an increased lifetime cancer risk for those exposed. On Nov. 1, officials with the EPA and the Florida DEP met with concerned residents. WGCU’s John Davis gets details in a conversation with News-Press Senior Writer Amy Bennett Williams, who has been covering this developing story.

The nearest other proton therapy centers for Southwest Florida residents are two in Miami, one in Delray Beach and one in Orlando. Two centers are planned for Tampa Bay.

I’m in a lab at Florida Gulf Coast University, talking to a 4-year-old about every photo in her mom’s camera roll. Her mom, Alana Underwood, asked Curious…

The Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida hosts a conference Oct. 19 highlighting the long-term effects experienced by survivors of childhood…