Saying there is no obvious cause for the cancer cluster in The Acreage, Palm Beach County’s health director said today that her agency intends to focus on “increasing awareness” of childhood brain cancers in general rather than trying to pinpoint a potential environmental contaminant.

“Research shows that pediatric cancer is on the rise in the entire industrial world,” said Dr. Alina Alonso in a meeting with reporters today at her department’s offices on Clematis Street. “We need to do more research in the area of brain cancer to find out what causes brain cancer. That is the direction we would like to take.”

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