DOES TEENAGE SCIENTIST RESTRUCTURE CANCER DETECTION
- Pancreatic
cancer ‘s high death rate is partly blamed on the difficulty of early
detection. Teenage scientist Jack Andraka has come up with a cheap and
simple way to test for it.
- Pancreatic
cancer is a killer – and one that is very hard to detect. One of the
reasons its survival rate is so poor that it has few symptoms in the
early stages.
- Partly
spurred by the death of his uncle, 16-year-old scientist and researcher
Jack Andraka affirm to find a quick and cheap way to test for signs of
the disease.
- Andraka’s
research – incuding writing to 200 science professors – led to him
developing a dipstick diagnostic test which searches for a biomarker
for pancreatic cancer. It can also be used to test for lung and ovarian
cancer.
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