Posted on 08/20/2007 8:23:48 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
Inventor from Erie, P.A. teams up with leading cancer center. The work has been quietly been going on for the last three years in a no-frills laboratory in Erie, Pennsylvania. Inventor, John Kanzius, working with Jim and Charlie Rutkowski, have been perfecting a device that will kill cancer cells with a radio frequency.
This humble workspace could soon become the epicenter of one of the most stunning scientific breakthroughs in cancer treatment in years.
Using the Kanzius RF machine and special nanoparticles, it appears that cancer cells can be targeted and killed without harming the rest of the body.
This is a deeply personal mission for John Kanzius. He is struggling to beat leaukemia. And he knows firsthand how tough standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation can be on the body.
Kanzius told Channel 3's Mike O'Mara that, "If this ends up working they way it looks, it really could be the holy grail of cancer research."
The entire city of Erie is buzzing about John's invention. Two weekends ago, thousands turned out for a motorcycle rally called "Roar On The Shore". All the money is going to help John's cancer research.
Ralph Pontillo is the head of the Erie Manufacturers Association. He is proud that his city can help the Kanzius project.
"It's amazing, said Ralph, "that in the very near future someone is going to stick a pin on a map and say this is where cancer was cured. And that pin is going to be Erie, Pennsylvania. That blows your mind and that is inconceivable."
Former Erie Mayor, Joyce Savocchio, said "there are nights that I think about it and I can't go to sleep. It just enfolds you that you are on the brink of history and something so enormous that you can't imagine it."
The excitement is not limited to Erie, Pennsylvania. In Houston, Texas at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, a team of scientists believe that John Kanzius has the key to something extraordinary.
MD Anderson is one of the most respected cancer centers in the world. 79 thousand cancer patients were treated at the huge campus in Houston last year.
Doctor Steven Curley is leading the research team at MD Anderson. Dr. Curley is the author of over 110 publications and 30 book chapters, many dealing with the treatment of patients with hepotocellular cancer, gallbladder cancer, bile duct cancer, or liver metastases.
Curley is brimming with cautious optimism.
"If we can come up with ways of delivering these particles to the cancer cells, but not to normal cells," Curley said, "this treatment will work. There's not a doubt in my mind. Any kind of cancer, anywhere in the body!"
Doctor Curley's team is ready to publish their first results using laboratory animals. So far, the targeted nanoparticles and the Kanzius RF machine have passed every test.
"There is a great deal of work that has to be done", said Curley. "However, I suspect once the manuscripts are published, there's going to be a real rush of excitement about this whole process. I've already warned John to get ready because the floodgates are about to open."
Kanzius wants to make sure his invention does not get sidelined by an unsympathetic corporation that might not want see an effective treatment on the market.
Said Kanzius, "venture capitalists, big pharmaceuticals that might want to buy this to tempt me and stop the research, not going to happen. There is no amount of money that can buy me off. You can not put a price on a human life."
When the revolutionary treatment is ready for human clinical trials, you can bet that Erie, Pennsylvania will go to the front of the line. And why not, since the inventor lives just a few miles away.
October 17, 2005
Gold Nanoparticles Show Potential
for Noninvasive Cancer Treatment
A father-and-son team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, and Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that targeted gold nanoparticles combined with a subsequent laser ablation can kill oral cancer cells. Building on their previous work that used gold nanoparticles to detect cancer, the investigators now are heating the particles and using them as agents to destroy malignant cells. Their study findings are reported in the journal Cancer Letters.
“In an earlier study we showed how gold nanoparticles could be bound to malignant cells, making cancer detection easier. Now we have examined how the particles’ ability to absorb light helps kill those cancer cells,” said principal author Ivan El-Sayed, M.D., of the UCSF Medical Center.<<
http://nano.cancer.gov/news_center/nanotech_news_2005-10-17b.asp
This is more detailed info on how other researchers bound gold nanoparticles to cancer cells. This research was published in 2005. Don’t know if they use the same technique, but it is sophisticated.
DK
If this is what it looks like, everyone in the world should be praying hard for this guy.
thanks, bfl
Do you have any examples of that ever happening. As far as I can tell, the idea that corporations are able to squelch breakthrough innovations is a fantasy of the left. Maybe that is because ever since Prometheus, the gods have had a very hard time containing human ingenuity.
You got it.
My son was recently diagnosed with an aggressive type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, if this guy is on to something real he can't get it on the market fast enough to suit me.
I have to say though, a lot of people over the last 50 years have claimed that they had a cure for cancer but it turned that out they didn't. Cautious but hopeful here.
If he’s the real deal he shouldn’t be propagating paranoid lunacy about “big pharma” trying to buy him out to “prevent an effective treatment.”
From MD Anderson’s website on Dr. Curley...
http://utm-ext01a.mdacc.tmc.edu/dept/pub/resrepv2.nsf/183e659df33a35188625662c0017b401/eee9091a3fd610ef862570c0005e0f01?OpenDocument
Seven years ago, we began preclinical studies utilizing radiofrequency ablation for thermal destruction of hepatic malignancies. The preclinical studies led to clinical trials that began 5 years ago. Our group has now performed radiofrequency ablation in more than 450 patients with primary or metastatic hepatic malignancies, and we have defined the indications, limitations, and complications associated with this treatment. The results of our phase I and II clinical trials utilizing radiofrequency ablation led to successful United States Food and Drug Administration approval of radiofrequency ablation as a treatment in patients with hepatic malignancies.
That is the theory that a certain RF can "crack" water and make hydrogen. It's one of those self sustaining, violation of the second law of thermal dynamics free energy forever and ever things that never leads anywhere stories. File it with the 100 MPG carberator stories.
No, I don't know how the nanoparticles tag and kill cancer cells, but I've heard of other processes that tried to concentrate some material in cancer cells which could be then be "microwaved" to overheat the tumor cells.
When I go to MD Anderson they use ultrasound, with digital enhancement of red & blue blood flow to see if any lesions have unusually high blood flow.
My point was that cancer cells have several differentiating features about themselves. And the inventor of this process, who has Leukemia (something that I had 10 years ago also) may not be inventing the magic bullet for his form of cancer, but he's doing incredible work for millions of sufferers and their families.
Most cancers have to steal extra bloodflow to support themselves and grow. When I had radiation a few years ago, it basically killed most of the capillaries around the tumor site and eliminated new cell growth for 2-3 years. It was a bummer for me. Radiation also caused a burn the size of a silver dollar that wouldn't heal and eventually required a major skin graph.
Forgot to add this is getting ready to go to phase III clinical trials, could be very positive but far away from curing all types of cancer. This is my opinion only.
That is a classic trademark of a scam artist. Men in black break into his lab, steal his invention, then they get "investors" to help rebuild the device, which never seems to quite get there. They always need "just a few more" dealerships, shareholders, etc.
Probably another Joe Newman or Dennis Lee Free enery type scam artist except using a "cure all" medical device.
See Becoming a Con man of crackpot technology for fun and profit
See my posts #48 and 51...This might be for real!
This looks like legitimate research, look at my post #48 and click on the link to MD Anderson’s website, they are considered number 1 in the world in cancer research.
Said Kanzius, "venture capitalists, big pharmaceuticals that might want to buy this to tempt me and stop the research, not going to happen. There is no amount of money that can buy me off. You can not put a price on a human life."
fyi ping.
God Bless these folks in their research and attempts to eradicate cancer.
I agree that the targeting is the hard part. Prostate cancer might be one of the first to be resolved. There's some specific antigens involved, and there's a lot of work going on to address exactly the selectivity issue you raised.
A)-Start with outrageous enough claims to filter the more skeptical people out as early as possible. But, be careful about making too many bogus scientific claims, or you may find self-righteous skeptics trying to debunk you - if this happens, tell your followers they (or any critics) are part of the conspiracy - maybe nitpick at fine points of their arguments, but don't ever respond to their main thrust.
B)- Claim you are not in it for the money, just to save humanity. Say you have already been offered huge sums, but want to sell it to the little guy (i.e. the gullible guy). Try to market it to older mid-western Christian farmers - they've always bought in in the past. Build excitement for something wonderful.
C)- Focus investors attention away from evaluating claims on technical grounds. The following distractions are recommended:
1. get them involved in political issues. Convince them you have some large secretive benefactor.
2. focus their attention on an elaborate multi-generational international conspiracy which has kept everyone pitching the device to fail. Make your audience outraged against the conspiracy, yet empowered that they can finally overcome it by giving you money.
3. talk about your valiant battles with the patent office or some government bureaucracy (that always warms people up)
4. get into religion quick (religious people are already taught to have faith) -appear to have God on your side
5. get people to focus on your theory rather than measurable evidence.
6. claim it already has been proven so you need not offer any proof Tell them you are done proving it and need big money to start mass production.
7. Write an autobiography (self-published, of course) where you can "control" the facts. When someone questions your shady past simply say, "Buy my book and learn the truth about what REALLY happened." Naive people won't question the "facts" because, after all, it's in a book. If your book is long enough, you may mesmerize them.
D)You must focus on the big conspiracy. It's very important to make people believe in the big conspiracy - because that's your excuse for past failures, present lack of evidence, the critics, and future delays. Locking horns with bureaucrats or the scientific community can distract from your lack of evidence and get you great free press. Make people believe exciting claims of bad guys wanting to steal or bury your ideas. - then claim you will destroy your prototypes and records rather than let them fall into the hands of the bad guys.
E)- Be bold, sell books, consider taking out full page ad or get on the radio. People will feel that something this out in the open can not possibly be a fly by night Con. The most successful cons are ones lasting for a few years not the quick cons.
F)-Watch your target market, Go after people predisposed to believing in conspiracy theories such as the militias, JFK conspiracy, and UFO cover-up groups.
G)-If you are forced to demonstrate some device, consider the following important tips: bore the skeptics right out of the room with long discourses on elementary science; claim you have some adjustments to make, yet; say it worked yesterday; run your machine for just a few seconds and move on to some other important point. - or do the Newman trick of openly hooking up input power and just promising it's less than what comes out.
There are a lot of cons out there, yet people never get tired of falling for them. These guys make millions scamming people who themselves are hoping to cash in.
This guy has already pulled out the conspiracy theory card, which should make everyone automatically suspicious.
I do see your point and agree with you 100%. I guess what I’m trying to point out is the research at MD seems to be legitimate and promising. I’ve been following cancer research lately as my sister is currently going through chemo for colon cancer.
So what has this to do with this other guys claims?
Frequency generators are nothing new, and have been around for a long time. You can get a good one fairly cheap at radio shack in any range you want. You can even build one yourself if you've a mind to. There are all kinds of free schematics on the internet available for those who like to dabble with electronics.
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