A Cancer Patient May Have Come Up With A Machine That Kills Tumours

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A dying broadcast engineer may have come up with a machine that could kill tumours. 63-year-old John Kanzius has leukaemia. During his 36 courses of chemo he was inspired to help the children he met during his treatments.

Many of those children have since died but the suffering they endured on their quest to survive gave John Kanzius an idea that may just cure some cancers.

Using pots and pans from his family kitchen John Kanzius built a machine that sends direct radio waves at tumours, heating and killing them without damaging surrounding tissues. The machine offers up the possibility of a cancer treatment with no side effects. Sadly the chances are unlikely that the inventor will live long enough to see his machine begin to save lives.

Two teams of American cancer researchers have used a refined version of Kanzius’ machine to kill static tumours in mice and rabbits. They are now researching on cancers that spread throughout the body. Within four short years human trials could be taking place.

Kanzuis knew that radio waves heat up metal because of his work in broadcast engineering. His goal was to find a way to eliminate chemotherapy from the cancer treatments.

“I saw the young children suffering and I said to myself: chemotherapy is brutal. There’s got to be a better way to treat cancer. It doesn’t work half the time. The treatment is worse than the disease.”

Using his wife’s pie pans he set out to make a machine that would pinpoint tumour and wipe them out. He experimented with hot dogs and copper sulphate. the injection area would get hot but the rest of the hot dog was not changed by the machine’s waves.

Steven Curley of the MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas said: “For a fellow who is himself battling with cancer, John is tireless. It’s remarkable that a man with no medical training came up with the idea. When he first called me I saw some problems with his design. Within a month he called and said he had fixed them.”

Dr. Curley is Kanzius’ own oncologist. He and Rick Smalley, another of his patients who just happened to be a Nobel Prize winner for discovering nanoparticles made of carbon started experimenting with the machine in August 2005.

“We now believe we can treat cells for perhaps as little as 15 seconds and produce enough heat to kill them and minimise any damage to surrounding normal tissue.”

Smalley died shortly after the initial experiments took place of lymphoma. Before his death he gave encouraging words about the machine to his doctor.

‘Stay with this boys, it’s going to change the world’.”

Dr. Curley’s team has just published two articles in the Journal of Cancer and the Journal of Nano-biotechnolody. There are three more articles to be published later this year.

Dr Curley said: “It’s very, very exciting and promising. I’m a bit more cautious than John because I want to make sure I don’t make any outrageous claims. But this has the potential to treat multiple types of cancer.”

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