High school cancer researcher, published in two journals, presents findings

PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) — Seventeen-year-old Nikita Kondapalli spent a month scouring a national medical database looking for links between Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cancer survivors, wanting to know their chances of developing other cancers five years after they beat the disease.
Nikita is part of a team of three high school students who discovered the risks.
“If someone had Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and they were over 50, they would know what to look for,” said Nikita, who i