I just discovered an article from CBS News talking about the “Kanzius Machine” and how it could possible be a cure for cancer. I actually assumed it would be just junk science (as I’m pretty skeptical of things like this), but reading the article gives me some hope that the device might actually work! Here is some information from the article:
His name is John Kanzius, and he’s a former businessman and radio technician who built a radio wave machine that has cancer researchers so enthusiastic about its potential they’re pouring money and effort into testing it out.
Here’s the important part: if clinical trials pan out-and there’s still a long way to go-the Kanzius machine will zap cancer cells all through your body without the need for drugs or surgery and without side effects. None at all. At least that’s the idea.
The answer would cost much more than that. Kanzius spent about $200,000 just to have a more advanced version of his machine built. He knew that metal heats up when it’s exposed to high-powered radio waves. So what if a tumor was injected with some kind of metal, and zapped with a focused beam of radio waves? Would the metal heat up and kill the cancer cells, but leave the area around them unharmed? He did his first test with hot dogs.
“I’m going to inject it with some copper sulfate,” Kanzius explained, demonstrating the machine. “And I’m going to take the probe right at the injection site.”
Kanzius placed the hot dog in his radio wave machine, and Stahl watched to see if the temperature would rise in that one area where the metal solution was and nowhere else.
“And when I saw it start to go up I said, ‘Eureka, I’ve done it,’” Kanzius remembered. “And I said, ‘God, I gotta shut this off and see whether it’s still cold down below.’ So I shut it off, took my probe, went down here where it wasn’t injected. And the temperature dropped back down. And I said, ‘God, maybe I got something here.’”
They’ve already shown that the Kanzius machine can heat nanoparticles and cook cancer to death in animals. Dr. Curley with rabbits, and in Pittsburgh, Dr. David Geller demonstrated to 60 Minutes how he used nanoparticles, made from gold, to kill liver cancer cells grown in rats.
“Now what we’re going to do is inject the nanoparticles,” Dr. Geller explained. “Directly into the tumor.”
In the study the rats, anesthetized to keep them still, were exposed to the Kanzius radio waves. Dr. Geller later examined their tumors under a microscope.
Even if all goes well in the lab, it’ll be at least another four years before human trials can start. But John Kanzius says he’s afraid he doesn’t have that much time. So to help speed up the research, he’s been raising millions of dollars and getting press coverage about his invention.
This is truly amazing, and if it works, I’d love to see cancer eradicated in my lifetime (especially since I’m a cancer survivor myself, and I’ve had many relatives and In-Laws that have suffered needlessly). This also goes to show that no one should ever think they couldn’t cure a disease just because they’re not college educated… believe in yourself and always try to learn what you can!
