non fiction reading response

                                                                                                                                                                    I read this article called "Teen studies her own cancer" by Lauran Neergaard. This 18 year old teen is named Elana Simon and  survived a extremely rare liver cancer and after she decided that she wanted to study it. She found a new study that  "helped scientists find a weird gene flaw that might play a role in how the tumor strikes." Elana's father was in charged of the study that she was working on, they only tested on 15 tumors because the cancer is rare. Elana got an internship to study the cancer she survived.  Elana had a problem with the internship, their wasn't enough tumors to test.  They spread  the word and eventually got more tumors to test. "  Sanford Simon said other researchers then conducted laboratory experiments to show the abnormal protein really is active inside tumor cells." Elana is going to Harvard and is going to continue her study. This article is a really inspiring article and i really like it and enjoyed reading it.