Less Invasive Means to Detect Breast Cancer

Teen Develops Less Invasive Means to Detect Breast Cancer

By Anna Kuchment | July 25, 2012 |  

Brittany Wenger

This year’s Google Science Fair winner, Brittany Wenger, 17, from Sarasota, Florida, spent more than 600 hours coding a sophisticated computer program to help doctors detect breast cancer using a less invasive form of biopsy. I spoke to her this morning at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.

How did you feel when you heard you had won not only your age category but also the grand prize at Monday night’s awards ceremony?

I was just so excited. It was a very surreal experience walking up there. I don’t even know how I got up there./.../