OUTSTANDING: Teenager crafts early detection tool for cancer

Jack Andraka catapulted from being a typical US teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly.

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"Through the internet, anything is possible," Andraka said while telling the story of his screening breakthrough at a TED conference in Long Beach, California.

Through the internet, anything is possible.
Jack Andraka

"There is so much more to it than posting duck-face pictures of yourself online," he continued, sucking in his cheeks and pushing out his lips to playfully underscore his point.

"If a 15-year-old who didn't know what a pancreas was could figure out a way to detect pancreatic cancer, imagine what you could do."
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Andraka, who turned 16 in January, recounted how three years ago he began scouring the internet for information about pancreatic cancer after it killed a cherished family friend.

He told of being shocked to learn that the cancer was typically found too late to save people. On top of that, the test used to screen for the illness was 60 years old, he said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/teenager-crafts-early-detection-tool-for-cancer-20130301-2f9yq.html#ixzz2MVrdV0c2

OUTSTANDING: Teenager crafts early detection tool for cancer

OUTSTANDING: Teenager crafts early detection tool for cancer

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