High School Freshman Wins Award For Pancreatic Cancer Test

WBAL News ^ | May 22, 2012 | Robert Lang

[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.

[Puzzleman]

Just when you think the younger generation is hopeless ...

[Sacajaweau]

I lost my best friend to this horrible disease.

[CaptainK]

Incredible story. I wish there was a way to follow it up.

[DaveA37]

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!!!!

[DaveA37]

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!!!!

[originalbuckeye]

I just yesterday said to my cousin (who recently lost her son to this horrendous disease) ‘someone needs to develop an early test for pancreatic Ca’. Lets hope this pans out. I have known several people who lost theirs lives to pancreatic ca. All because it doesn't show symptoms until it is already too late to help them.

[shag377]

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.

[CaptainK]

Scroll down and look at all the award winners. Many are from the “dumb” USA.

http://triblive.com/business/1823661-74/science-test-andraka-cancer-sciences-fair-canada-engineering-intel-ontario

[Taffini]

bump—cancer

glad he was born.

[MsLady]

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.

[gwilhelm56]

FDA approval is expected around the year 2397. </sarc

[Arlis]

I lost a friend to it just last night...horrible cancer......

[sitetest]

Wow. I actually know this family. Very nice people.

[TXnMA]

"glad he was born."

On FR, it's still OK to say, "glad he was not aborted!"

[pepsi_junkie]

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.

[SueRae]

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.

[autumnraine]

Ovarian and Lung too!!!

Lost my mom to ovarian cancer. this is amazing! I only wish he invented it 10 years ago.

[netmilsmom]

“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!)

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

——FDA approval is expected around the year 2397. </sarc——

Not if we call it a “gay disease.”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Puzzleman.