The teenage scientist revolutionising cancer detection. A simple test for pancreatic cancer.

Thursday, July 4, 2013 - 21:50 in Health & Medicine

Pancreatic cancer is a killer – and one that is very hard to detect. One of the reasons its survival rate is so poor that it has few symptoms in the early stages. Partly spurred by the death of his uncle, 16-year-old scientist and researcher Jack Andraka vowed to find a qu …

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