The 16-year-old prodigy claims to find a cure for breast cancer

British Krtin Nithiyanandam has just announced a way to cure negative breast cancer with three endocrine receptors, one of the most dangerous types of breast cancer today.

Krtin Nithiyanandam was the winner of the Google Science Fair competition in 2015 thanks to early detection of Alzheimer's disease. After that success, the person who is likened to a 16-year-old prodigy continues to use the school's lab to study therapy for this disease. Besides, Krtin also learn more about how to treat breast cancer.

According to Telegraph, about 7,500 women a year are diagnosed with negative breast cancer with 3 endocrine receptors, a type of disease that does not respond to treatment drugs. This type of breast cancer is more difficult to treat and more likely to relapse than other types of breast cancer.

Krtin Nithiyanandam.(Photo: Geoff Pugh).

Negative breast cancer with endocrine receptors is more likely to occur before the age of 40 or 50, while other breast cancers often occur at age 60 or older. This type of cancer cannot be treated with drugs that block estrogen. Thus, the only treatments left are surgery and standard chemotherapy drugs. While chemotherapy is effective for many three-receptor-negative breast cancers, some are resistant to chemotherapy or quickly recur after chemotherapy ends.

Recently, the 16-year-old prodigy announced that he had found a way to cure the disease."Most types of cancers have surface receptors associated with therapeutic drugs. However, negative breast cancer for endocrine receptors has no receptors, leading to an ineffective drug. " Krtin said.

Krinin wants to develop treatments based on the principle of treating the cancer to a treatable stage. According to the young scientist, the key to fighting this disease is the ID4 protein . The ID4 protein is able to block the differentiation of non-differentiated stem cells (a form that slows the growth and multiplication of malignant cells). Therefore, it is necessary to lock ID4 to differentiate the tumor.

He also found a way to disable genes that produce ID4 proteins to bring cancer to a less dangerous stage. The prodigy hopes these findings will attract the attention of the scientific community for the project to go further. If successful, this will be an important turning point, contributing greatly to world medicine.