Young man wins american top young scientist for anti skin cancer soap

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Shripriya and Sarah each won $2,000, while the students who placed fourth through 10th won a $1,000 prize and a $500 gift card. The other students recognized hail from Portland, Oregon, Baltimore, New Rochelle, New York, Austin, Texas, and Oviedo, Florida, among others.

More about Heman Bekele's invention to treat skin cancer

Heman developed a compound-based bar of soap designed to treat melanoma. The bar of soap costs about $.50 to make.

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Heman hopes to refine his innovation and create a non-profit organization to distribute the soap to communities in need over the next five years, according to 3M and Discovery Education.

Competition organizers didn't immediately respond to USA TODAY's request to interview Heman on Monday.

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Skin cancer cases rising in the US
Skin cancer cases have increased in the U.S. over the past few decades, the National Cancer Institute found.

The rate of new cases rose to 24.1 per 100,000 people in 2019, compared to 14.6 in 1992.

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The National Institute of Health reports that skin cancer one of the most commonly diagnosed groups of cancers worldwide, with 1.5 million new cases estimated in 2020.
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I mean this obviously does not actually cure or prevent cancer but cool
 
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