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Posted on 05/23/2012 5:01:12 AM PDT by Puzzleman
He is only a freshman at North County High School in Anne Arundel County.
However, 15-year-old Jack Andraka is being recognized for developing what may become an effective way to detect pancreatic cancer.
(Excerpt) Read more at wbal.com ...
I lost my best friend to this horrible disease.
Incredible story. I wish there was a way to follow it up.
Not all of our youth are on drugs and worthless. Here is one young man whom we should all keep an eye on. He will go very far! Well done young man!!!!
Not all of our youth are on drugs and worthless. Here is one young man whom we should all keep an eye on. He will go very far! Well done young man!!!!
I hope he goes far in life. I lost my dad to this disease.
Pancreatic cancer is nasty stuff, 100% mortality.
God Speed, young man.
Scroll down and look at all the award winners. Many are from the “dumb” USA.
bump—cancer
glad he was born.
WOW, this is huge. My mother in law died from this, they didn’t discover it until about 2 months before she died. She’d been feeling badly for about year. And they thought my brother in law had it. He had to go through some intrusive tests to find out, he didn’t have it.
FDA approval is expected around the year 2397. </sarc
I lost a friend to it just last night...horrible cancer......
Wow. I actually know this family. Very nice people.
On FR, it's still OK to say, "glad he was not aborted!"
Interesting, he says in the article that it should be effective for other forms of cancer including ovarian and lung. He patented the idea so if this thing really works I expect he will not need student loans to pay for his medical school training. Great story.
Stellar work, young man. I have high hopes for today’s youth when I hear of stories like this.
I just lost a friend to this disease only two weeks ago.
Ovarian and Lung too!!!
Lost my mom to ovarian cancer. this is amazing! I only wish he invented it 10 years ago.
“He says a bio tech firm in San Diego has been interested in his test, and will help perform clinical trials on his product in order to win FDA approval”
Why do you need FDA approval? It’s a paper that detects a protein?
Thank God for this brilliant young man!
(makes me want to motivate my 14-year-old!)
——FDA approval is expected around the year 2397. </sarc——
Not if we call it a “gay disease.”
Thanks Puzzleman.
The cynical, dark side of me says, how did this simple test for a specific protein escape the view of big Pharma and thousands upon thousands of pedigreed medical researchers all these years?
This is awesome.
Perseverance on the young man’s part.
Willingness to risk on the part of the prof at Hopkins.
And now, a potential breakthrough in this horrible disease.
Way to go!
These other researchers should look for a different line of work.
bttt
>>FDA approval is required to prove the efficacy of the test. If people are going to rely on it to tell them whether they are actually sick or not, you have to know that it works and under what conditions it works. <<
Wow, I didn’t know that.
Thanks!
I guess the real trick is trying to determine "who" to test, and how often. Do you test everyone in an annual screening? Do you test otherwise normally healthy people? Are there other "markers" that would suggest that some categories of people are more prone to this cancer?
The good news is that this test seems relatively inexpensive, so it could be offered as part of a routine screening.
“He patented the idea so if this thing really works I expect he will not need student loans to pay for his medical school training”
If this proves out he won’t need any kind of training except maybe how to retire and enjoy life!
Please convey our admiration and best wishes to this young man! Lost a good friend and hunting mentor to this cancer last year.
nothing that actually works and only costs 3 cents will ever be approved
What a wonderful story.
What abysmal writing by Mr. Lang.
Awesome! Congratulations to this young man!
That’s exactly what I thought.
3 cents will become $3000.You have to count all the hands that will handle the 3 cent paper,blood vials,additional tests.....
I worked with the International Science and Engineering Fair for over 20 years as it grew from 600 contestants to over 1500 from over 40 countries. Amazing talent from all the kids there and great support from their teachers and awards from science organizations, the military and univerities.
WHOA THERE!! A medical test developed by a private citizen?!? Quick, get this kid to a re-education camp errr I mean Ivy League school so he can learn never to do anything like this again without the supervision of government.
Well, who would have thought? Ever since I can remember we have been told how far behind our youth were in math and science compared to some other countries. However, look how much has been accomplished by Americans’s since the 60’s. It’s the same old bullshit promulgated by special interest, like teacher union’s, to have more money thrown their way supposedly to improve education, since we are always so far behind. just sayin.
Absolutely. I picked out two very obvious mistakes, even on cursory reading. Mr. Lang obviously had no idea what he was writing about.
Congratulations to this young man for a truly brilliant and innovative idea that has the potential to save thousands of lives.
Amazing young guy.
Lost a good friend to this disease last year. A diagnosis and 2 weeks later she was gone.
Miss you, little j.
You know, on the one side of the “youth” spectrum, we have this amazing kid and others like him...
...and on the other side, there’s Trayvon Martin and those like him.
Couldn’t have a more drastic picture of polar opposites.
One goes down a good path....the other goes off the edge.
Ivy League school Ivy-covered North Korea (term used by an educator aware of what is going on).
This is some of the best news I’ve heard recently! Thank God for this young man!
Yes, I too lost a dear friend to pancreatic cancer almost 2 years ago now...we got a call on my birthday sept 1, her husband said to come quickly, we came out from AZ to central CA that weekend and she was gone the next Tuesday...but we know that she went home to be with our Lord Jesus Christ. No one know the end, but you can know where you go by putting your life in the hand of the only one who gives Eternal life...
Might as well cut your own head off if you’re diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I hope this kid’s idea works.
Maryland PING!
Agreed.
We should lock him in a lab, keep him away from girls and music. ;p
: )
It’s just such a striking contrast...
Our culture produces people like this kid...
Ghetto culture produces, well...we all know what that produces.
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