Two grade eight students from the Wakaw School are in Regina this week for the Canada Wide Science Fair.

Allysa Biccum and Julie Frie have been working on their project for two years as Teacher Corey Biccum explains.

"Where they've been collecting finger prints from people that have been diagnosed with cancer and comparing them to people that have not been diagnosed with cancer. They tried to see if there was any coloration between certain finger print patterns and those of their subjects."

They actually have seen some interesting results, only five percent of people have "arched" finger print patterns but there is a high number of cancer patients with that pattern.

"95 percent of their cancer subjects have arches," Biccum expanded. "They're thinking that might be a link that could be used as an early diagnostic tool. If you have an arch in your finger print pattern that might be something you want to think about is the possibility of having some sort of cancer."

Allysa is Biccum's daughter, he also has a daughter named Sarah who was also interested in scientific studies. Sarah had studied finger print patterns and their relationship with peanut allergies.

"Allysa's sister ended up having a brain tumor and it went undiagnosed," Biccum elaborated. "She had some issues with that so Allysa wanted to carry on with a science fair project related to finger prints."

Their project was chosen to compete at the national level through the Carlton Trail Regional Science Fair.

The two students are in Regina all week for the fair that began Sunday and runs until Saturday.

You can hear more from Biccum below who spoke with Bolt FM's Angie Dukart.