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14-year-old invents soap to treat skin cancer

2023-10-25 20:44:06Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
14-year-old invents soap to treat skin cancer
Heman Bekele

A high school teenager has been named "America's Best Young Scientist" after producing a bar of soap that could be useful in the treatment of melanoma, a skin cancer diagnosed in about 100,000 people in the US each year. and is responsible for about 8,000 deaths.

Heman Bekele, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Annandale, Virginia, won the award after beating out nine other finalists.

"Cure cancer one bar of soap at a time," he said during the launch of the soap. "I've been very interested in biology and technology and this challenge gave me the perfect platform to showcase my ideas," he added. .

The 14-year-old came up with his idea for a soap, "skin cancer treatment soap", made from ingredients that can reactivate the dendritic cells that protect human skin, enabling them to fight cancer cells. In a video of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, Bekele said he believes "that young minds can have a positive impact on the world."

Bekele's idea came from living in Ethiopia until he was four years old, where, he told the Washington Post, he saw people working constantly under the hot sun. "I wanted to make my idea something that was not only scientifically great, but also accessible to as many people as possible," he added.

His mentor at 3M, Deborah Isabelle, described the teenager as "focused on making the world a better place for people he hasn't necessarily met."

According to the American Cancer Association (ACA), skin cancer is the most common of all cancers, with melanoma accounting for only 1% but causing the majority of skin cancer deaths.

The study says the rate of melanoma has risen rapidly in recent decades, especially among women over 50, and is more than 20 times more common in whites than black people. At the same time, melanoma death rates have declined over the past decade due to advances in treatment.


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