13-year-old boy found the algorithm to help treat pancreatic cancer

A 13-year-old boy (in Oregon, USA) can change the way doctors treat pancreatic cancer - a silent "assassin" who kills hundreds of thousands of people, with the proportion of patients surviving in five. year only 7%.

Rishab Jain (13 years old) studying at Stoller Middle School (in Portland, USA) won the Young Scientist Challenge Challenge (Discovery Education 3M).

The boy invented an algorithm in which a machine model was used to help doctors focus on the pancreas during cancer treatment, according to Time.

Rishab Jain created an algorithm that helps doctors treat pancreatic cancer more effectively.

According to doctors, the treatment process is not easy because the pancreas is often obscured by other organs in the body.

In addition, when we breathe and have other activities, the pancreas is moved around the abdominal area. Therefore, doctors find it difficult to detect.

They need to use waves or high-energy particles "to attack a fairly wide area to ensure it can" hit "the pancreas, but the probability of" hitting "a few healthy cells around is quite good. high".

The algorithm created by Jain can solve some of these problems. The algorithm can help doctors determine the exact location of the pancreas.

"With this algorithm, doctors use waves or high-energy particles to attack the pancreas accurately. So it can help treat tumors more effectively," Jain told Time.

This initiative helped the boy win a prize worth US $ 25,000 (equivalent to VND 548 million) under the help of the instructor (Dr. Döne Demirgöz) in the competition.

Jain said he was concerned about pancreatic cancer last year during his trip to Boston (USA) because there he saw a friend of the family die from the disease.

Currently, Jain is contacting doctors from Oregon hospitals and famous hospitals like Johns Hopkins and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (USA) to apply his initiative.

In addition, he used the winning amount to develop the initiative and created a non-profit fund (called the Samyak Science Association) to encourage other young people to learn STEM, Technology and Mathematics. ) and raise awareness about.

Jain also said that he also retained a prize to go to college. The boy is trying to learn to be a biomedical engineer or a doctor, according to Time.