A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager

Name: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
Uploaded: 2013-07-11T15:06:10Z
Duration: 10 min 35 s
Description: Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be? Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a promising early detection test for pancreatic cancer that's super cheap, effective and non-invasive -- all before his 16th birthday.

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Jack Andraka |

TED2013

• February 2013

Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be? Jack Andraka talks about how he developed a promising early detection test for pancreatic cancer that's super cheap, effective and non-invasive -- all before his 16th birthday.