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High School Freshman Wins Award For Pancreatic Cancer Test
WBAL News ^ | May 22, 2012 | Robert Lang

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: cancer; health; maryland; medicine; pancreaticcancer; test
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Just when you think the younger generation is hopeless ...
1 posted on 05/23/2012 5:01:26 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Puzzleman

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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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!!!!


4 posted on 05/23/2012 5:12:24 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: CaptainK

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!!!!


5 posted on 05/23/2012 5:12:39 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Puzzleman
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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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Progov

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


8 posted on 05/23/2012 5:20:50 AM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Sacajaweau

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


12 posted on 05/23/2012 5:34:20 AM PDT by Arlis (.)
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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Taffini
"glad he was born."

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

14 posted on 05/23/2012 5:35:53 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Puzzleman

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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To: Puzzleman

“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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To: gwilhelm56

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

Not if we call it a “gay disease.”


19 posted on 05/23/2012 5:47:09 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (hViva Christo Rey!)
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To: neverdem; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Puzzleman.


20 posted on 05/23/2012 5:54:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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