Wiki is a better research center for cancer tests: see what this teen boy did.

Wiki is a better research center for cancer tests: see what this teen boy did.

"While on summer break in 2011 at age 15, Jack Andraka made a breakthrough in cancer detection that had eluded pharmaceutical companies and legions of PhDs.

Using information he found on Google and Wikipedia (which he calls “a teenager’s best friend”), Andraka, who lives in Anne Arundel County, came up with an idea for a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer that he says is 168 times faster, 400 times more sensitive and 26,000 times more economical than the medical standard.

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Currently, to screen the blood of a patient at risk for pancreatic cancer, doctors must send vials to a lab, where it is tested for elevated levels of a biomarker. Cancer researchers and practitioners say that these tests, which are 60 years old, aren’t reliable. They often don’t show any abnormalities even when the cancer is advanced."

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