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New Pancreatic Cancer Test Developed by 15 Year Old, Jack Andraka
From the outside, Jack Andraka looks much like any other 16 year old-long, shaggy brown hair and wearing a retainer- but this 16 year old is no average high schooler.
In 2012, Jack Andraka, at age 15, won the $75,000 Intel ISEF Gordon E Moore Award for inventing a revolutionary test strip that can detect early stage pancreatic cancer.
The painful and sudden loss of a close family friend, who was like an uncle to him, prompted him to start researching pancreatic cancer.
He needed to make sense of his whole emotional struggle and loss.
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The family friend found out he had pancreatic cancer then passed away six months later. Why was the diagnosis made so late?
Andraka admits that his research would not be possible without the internet, and so, he resorted to Googling his way through the facts.
He quickly found the startling statistics on pancreatic cancer- 5.5% of patients with a pancreatic cancer diagnosis will survive