Breaking limits

How a young innovator revolutionized cancer diagnosis. After losing his best friend to pancreatic cancer, Jack Andraka realized the inaccessibility and ineffectiveness of existing tests to detect the disease. Determined to create his own method, Jack, then 15 years old, dedicated himself to extensive research and discovered a way to identify pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer much earlier. After being rejected by several researchers, the young man finally managed to get his creation accepted by a research laboratory. In "Breaking Boundaries," Jack Andraka recounts his difficult journey against depression and homophobia and details his important scientific invention.