Teen develops early test for pancreatic cancer

Jack Andraka has in a short space of time gone from being a typical teenager unaware of the pancreas to one with a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ before it turns deadly.

“Through the internet, anything is possible,” said Andraka while telling the story of his screening breakthrough at a prestigious TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in California this week.

“If a 15-year-old who didn’t know what a pancreas was could figure out a way to detect pancreatic cancer, imagine what you could do.”