When a close family friend passed away from pancreatic cancer, a 14-year-old American from Crownsville, Maryland named Jack Andraka wanted to find a better way of detecting the disease. Using the Internet and Wikipedia articles in particular as a starting point in his research, the now 18-year-old high school senior became a cancer researcher who invented a fast, inexpensive test that may eventually be used to detect pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer. Read more here: <a class="external autonumber" href="https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/16/high-school-student-cancer-test/">[1]</a>
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_(WMF)" title="User:VGrigas (WMF)">Victor Grigas</a>
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