Kanzius Cancer Fighting Machine Moves Forward

After following the story of John Kanzius and his cancer-fighting machine since January 2008, Lesley Stahl of CBS 60 Minutes presented an interesting segment about how John's dreams of making his machine come to reality is still in process.

Kanzius had a deadly form of leukemia when Lesley Stahl first started to follow this ingenious man's story. He used the short time he had left to invent a machine that would kill cancer cells without the horrendous side effects that are typical of radiation and chemotherapy. He began to build this machine with radios and metal pie pans in his garage.

Kanzius was so passionate about the machine, he tried it himself. In the 60 Minutes segment he told Lesley Stahl back in August 2008:

"I decided it was time to turn the switch on and try it…Try treating myself," he explained. "Got in the machine, adjusted it, and turned it on for a minute the first time. And [I] didn't feel anything strange."

"I've done it nine times," Kanzius told Stahl. "Nine times and my blood work has improved all summer long. We're on vacation right now from cancer, I don't know whether it's a permanent leave but we're on vacation right now."

His invention used radio waves transmitted across a small field and created enough energy to light up a fluorescent bulb. Kanzius wanted to prove that radio waves are harmless to humans and thought he had discovered a way to attack cancer cells without the damage caused by standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation.

It all started to come together when Kanzius grabbed a hot dog and injected part of it with copper sulfate, a metallic substance. He placed the hot dog in the radio wave-generating machine he built in his Sanibel garage. He flipped it on. The treated part of the meat got hot — think of that as a tumor. The rest, like healthy tissue, remained cool.

John Kanzius lost his battle with leukemia on February 18, 2009. His wife, Marianne, has been continuing on with her husband's dream of curing cancer without the grueling side effects that are the norm now.

Dr. Steven Curley, a liver cancer surgeon at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, had been intrigued by Kanzius ideas and even conducted his own research with the machine, using tiny bits of gold nano-particles that are so small, thousands of them can be injected into a single cancer cell. The radio waves then heat up the gold, which kills the cancer.

In an interview with 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl, Dr. Curley says the original idea, injecting cancer cells with gold nano-particles and then zapping them with radio waves, is full-steam ahead. He has obtained funding for a new multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art lab. According to Dr. Curley, every single one of these different projects is related to Kanzius' machine in some way.

John Kanzius created his radio wave machine in hopes that it would one day offer side-effect free treatment for cancer patients. Read more about how that dream continues to be kept alive at www.kanziuscancerresearch.com/

View a video related to the CBS 60 Minutes Episode about John Kanzius.

Cheryl Phillips
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sources: CBS, kanziuscancerresearch.com