Posted on 09/01/2007 9:12:16 PM PDT by Red Badger
Susan Moses Created: 5/15/2007 2:59:08 PM Updated:5/16/2007 6:11:13 AM
SANIBEL ISLAND, FL -- A Florida retiree battling cancer himself has discovered a possible method of killing cancerous cells with radio waves. If it works, it could be the "Holy Grail" of cancer treatments.
His is the great American story. A broadcast engineer, who shrewdly evolves into the owner of several TV and radio stations, sells them for a bundle and retires early to picturesque Sanibel Island.
But Easter 2002, began an unexpected chapter in the story of John Kanzius, a year and-a-half after he retired. He was diagnosed with a severe form of leukemia.
Soon after receiving this news, Kanzius began his punishing chemotherapy and was heartbroken at its effects on fellow patients, especially children.
"There was one scene I could not forget and that was the young children came in with smiles and a week later see those smiles disappear and so forth and literally would watch them waste away," recalls Kanzius.
Necessity is the mother of invention and the need for a gentler treatment for those sick children proved a powerful motivator for Kanzius, a tinkerer, inventor and grandfather.
"We really haven't developed a better way other than going into people's veins and putting systemic drugs into them and hoping we kill the cancer before we kill the person," Kanzius says.
Kanzius wrestled with the idea of a better way and in the middle of the night in October 2003 inspiration struck: kill cancerous cells with radio waves.
"I had all the equipment that one could use for sending and picking up radio signals."
He was a ham radio operator.
Kanzius continues, "And all I needed in my house was antennas. And the best thing that worked as antennas at 3 o'clock in the morning was my wife's pie pans."
Startled out of bed by clattering in the kitchen, wife Marianne found her husband cutting up her pie pans.
"I got up and immediately thought he'd lost it," says Marianne Kanzius.
His idea might have sounded crazy but he wasn't. Here are the basics of his idea.
Radio waves for the most part are harmless but they will heat certain metals. Gold is one of those metals and was also previously FDA-approved for use in humans.
A lab provided Kanzius with what is essentially gold, broken down into the tiniest possible size. They're called nanoparticles.
These nanoparticles are injected into a cancer patient and are attracted to the abnormalities of the cancerous cells, attaching themselves to those bad cells. What's more, the nanoparticles ignore healthy cells.
The patient is then exposed to radio waves and only the bad cells heat up and die. The healthy cells, which have no metal on them, are not warmed up at all and are unaffected.
Early, crude experiments done on hot dogs in his garage seemed to work. In 2004, Kanzius showed the results to a prominent cancer researcher.
"He said, 'You know this is the most amazing thing I've ever read in my life,'" proudly recalls Kanzius.
Today Kanzius has several universities working on his research and a manufacturer now builds clinical-sized versions of the machine he first built with radio parts and his wife's pie pans.
This 62-year-old Florida retiree with no medical background whatsoever has grabbed the attention of the medical community.
"We could be getting close to grabbing the Holy Grail," says physician Dr. Dan Pulsipher.
Kanzius spends 70 hours of his retirement every week working on a cure, still motivated by those children he saw in chemotherapy.
"My best term scenario would be to watch a patient get treated and have a doctor tell them they're cured. To me, that would be all the thanks I would need."
Human trials are expected to begin in a couple of years.
A close friend of mine was diagnosed with liver cancer almost two years ago. He was given 6 moths at best to get his affairs in order. Our employer stepped in by contacting some people he knew personally about a new treament using the same type of conditions. The injection of some special solution and then a process that was based on radio waves. This treatment is beyond the health coverage but they enacted a plan to proceed.
He just had a third treatment last week. The treatment leaves him understandably weak but he has not lost any hair and all indications are the cancr is in check if not remission. He is only one of 14 to have received this treatment as the conditions to receive it are very strict. As far as we know there has not been a 15th recipient because of the qualifications process.
This sounds on the same lines and hopefully the two can collaborate their findings to an ultimate treatment.
The hospital is Mayo in Jacksonville.
hope this guy with good ole american ingenuity cna really make a breakthrough!!!!
Not entirely.
Gold may be harmless. Radio waves may be harmless.
The COMBINATION may have some unknown effect.
That’s why they need to test. Also,
things like, what frequency? what power? how much gold? how long do you treat? How can you tell it’s working for sure?
Lot’s and lots of questions need to be answered before they can approve it.
Remember the PRIMARY rule of medicine is:
Primum non nocere
“First do no harm”....
That is probably the true reason. Too bad.
I’m not making any conclusions, good or bad. I just hope and pray that he is really on to something...........
The waiting makes no sense.
Yet, there is abortion. Logic and morality seem to have little sway in our present government.
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