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1 posted on 05/23/2012 5:01:26 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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I lost my best friend to this horrible disease.


2 posted on 05/23/2012 5:03:55 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Incredible story. I wish there was a way to follow it up.


3 posted on 05/23/2012 5:05:06 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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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.
6 posted on 05/23/2012 5:12:54 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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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.


7 posted on 05/23/2012 5:18:03 AM PDT by shag377 (Illegitimis nil carborundum sunt!)
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bump—cancer

glad he was born.


9 posted on 05/23/2012 5:26:49 AM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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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.


10 posted on 05/23/2012 5:28:42 AM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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FDA approval is expected around the year 2397. </sarc


11 posted on 05/23/2012 5:31:16 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (1984 - to Conservatives, a WARNING... to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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Wow. I actually know this family. Very nice people.


13 posted on 05/23/2012 5:35:31 AM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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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.


15 posted on 05/23/2012 5:39:51 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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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.


16 posted on 05/23/2012 5:40:59 AM PDT by SueRae (The Tower of Sauron falls on 11.06.2012)
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Ovarian and Lung too!!!

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


17 posted on 05/23/2012 5:41:30 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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“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!)


18 posted on 05/23/2012 5:43:15 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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The optimistic side of me says Thank God for this young man and may he be greatly blessed for this discovery.

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?

21 posted on 05/23/2012 5:58:21 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
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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!


22 posted on 05/23/2012 6:13:40 AM PDT by iceskater (I am a Carnivore Conservative - No peas for me. (h/t N.Theknow))
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"...after nearly 200 other researchers rejected Andraka's request for help.

These other researchers should look for a different line of work.

23 posted on 05/23/2012 6:13:51 AM PDT by vortigern
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bttt


24 posted on 05/23/2012 6:16:05 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("If you want to understand the modern Left, read Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Trust me" ~RJ Moeller)
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What a wonderful story.

What abysmal writing by Mr. Lang.


31 posted on 05/23/2012 6:46:59 AM PDT by green iguana
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Awesome! Congratulations to this young man!


32 posted on 05/23/2012 6:56:26 AM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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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.


35 posted on 05/23/2012 7:20:28 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Congratulations to this young man for a truly brilliant and innovative idea that has the potential to save thousands of lives.


39 posted on 05/23/2012 8:58:17 AM PDT by mojito
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