Ethiopian-born Virginia teen honored for inventing potential skin cancer-treating soap

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Ethiopian-born Virginia teen honored for inventing potential skin cancer-treating soap
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Heman Bekele created the soap when he was in middle school.

A 14-year-old student has created a new kind of soap that he hopes could potentially be used to treat skin cancer someday.

"People might not have the equipment or have the facilities to be able to treat this disease," Heman told ABC News about the innovation, which he said could eventually be used in the early stages of skinif proven to be effective. "A bar of soap is just so simple, so affordable, so accessible in comparison to these modern new skin cancer treatments.

When asked the likelihood of SCTS actually treating skin cancer, Isabelle replied that it was possible, but it would need to undergo typical clinical trials that could take between five and 10 years. At this point, Heman said he has not performed any physical trials, instead using digital molecular testing, secondary data analysis and formulaic computations to reach his results.

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