Story from sundayadelaja
A
15- year old teenager from Crownsville, Maryland, called Jack Andraka, is the
Teen Prodigy of Pancreatic Cancer who invented a new method to detect a lethal
cancer.
Namely,
this teenager started to work on this issue after the death of a close friend
of his, caused by pancreatic cancer. As a result of this tragedy, Jack’s
resolution was to be more proactive rather than just accepting the situation
without trying to change it.
Unfortunately,
pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths (34, 000
taken lives so far) due to its late detection. Moreover, the popular tests are
60 years old and expensive ($ 800) testing methods which miss 30% of all
pancreatic cancers.
Jack
focused on the fact that the main problem was a lack of early detection tests,
so he came up with a test that is capable of detecting cancer in its earliest
stage.
Jack’s
test a 100 % accurate cancer test that costs 3 cents and takes only 5 minutes
using Google and Wikipedia-the two most used online resources, available almost
to everyone who has an internet connection.
Additionally, the
test invented by this remarkable young boy is 168 times faster, 26,000 times
cheaper and 400 times more sensitive than the current standard of detection.
The
discovery by the young boy can be of great importance in cancer treatments, and
it undoubtedly put cancer industry in shock at how he beat them to such an
important invention.
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