The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?

Inventor Tells 60 Minutes He Hopes To Live Long Enough To See Machine Cure Humans

(CBS)  But how could he focus the radio waves to destroy cancer cells?

"That was the next $64,000 question," Kanzius said.

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.'"

Kanzius thought he had found a way attack cancer cells without the collateral damage caused by chemotherapy and radiation. Today, his invention is in the laboratories of two major research centers - the University of Pittsburgh and M.D. Anderson, where Dr. Steven Curley, a liver cancer surgeon, is testing it.

"This technology may allow us to treat just about any kind of cancer you can imagine," Dr. Curley told Stahl. "I've gotta tell you, in 20 years of research this is the most exciting thing that I’ve encountered."

That's because Kanzius impressed Curley with another remarkable idea: to combine the radio waves from his device with something cutting edge - space age nanoparticles made of metal or carbon. They are so small that thousands of them can fit in a single cancer cell. Because they’re metallic, Kanzius was hoping his radio waves would heat them up and kill the cancer.

"If these nanoparticles work then we truly have something huge here," Kanzius told Stahl.

Enter Rick Smalley, another cancer patient at M.D. Anderson and the man who won the Nobel Prize for discovering nanoparticles made from carbon. As luck would have it, Dr. Curley was called in one day to examine Smalley. Before leaving, he asked him for some of his nanoparticles.

"I proceeded to tell him what I wanted to do and that I thought they would heat. He looked at me with sort of a studied long look and didn’t say anything. And then he looked at me and said, 'It won’t work,'" Curley remembered. "And just laughed and said, 'Well, look, I'll give you some. But don't be too disappointed.'"

So Dr. Curley brought a vial of those precious nanoparticles to John Kanzius.

[magdog2765]

Royal Rife developed the same machine in the 1930's only to be discredited. It works on the same premise that radio waves kill organisms, but not with heat, but by destruction of the cell wall. Google Royal Rife and you will see for yourself.

[bruce69almighty]

I was just concerned about the heating of any trace metals in the body (such as iron, which red blood cells utilize). Maybe I am wrong and that these metals are in such small size that their heating causes no adverse effects. I don't know, I am just throwing this out there.

[lindawarby]

There has always been a CURE for cancer in other countries for many many years.

[information_for_you]

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[bobp64]

Upper 5% - not impressed. There are 15 million people in the US in the "upper 5%". I'm in the upper 0.01% and I can tell you that I learn from each and every opportunity that presents itself and that can come from a Nobel Prize winning physicist down to the the most down on their luck person in the world. True intelligence teaches you much more than to be a snob. My degrees are irrelevant, but just to show that I do have a bit of mettle behind me academically I do hold more than one degree from a little technical college in Cambridge, Mass. I too know of some big boastful PhD's who brag that they're "adjunct Professors" - all that means is that they're temporarily hired to teach some classes, they are NOT *real* professors!

Nanotechnology is an up and coming science. Delivering targeted medicine directly to cancer cells has always been one of the hallmark concepts being touted and the methods under discussion here are just one embodiment of applications for nanotechnology that are bandied about quite frequently. I am not at all surprised that such an application is appearing to work. I'm sure there are details to work through and clinical trials to run, but the basic science is fairly sound (and has been for a couple years now).

Nanotechnology will offer us a lot once we truly learn to embrace it. I once saw a group of middle school children that took the (fairly simple but very forward looking) concept of a respirocyte (I'll leave it to the reader to investigate exactly what a respirocyte *will be* once it is developed) and extended it to be a truly remarkable life saving device. With people like this coming of age, I believe there is hope for our society.

There is another cancer drug out there - DCA (dichloroacetate). They're funding clinical trials strictly through donations because it's a drug that can't be patented, drug companies can't make any money from it, and there's a good chance that it could potentially shut down many (not all) of the world's oncology centers. So, not only do big drug companies want to suppress this, doctors, nurses, and even hospital management are afraid of something like this working. Sure, there will always be some cancers that don't react well to DCA, but just think about the financial impact to the hospitals. It would be devastating, especially because I'm sure many of them are still paying on all the high priced machines used in their oncology dept!

[robboman48]

Sounds like he is using the technology pioneered by Royal Rife in the early 1930's and continued in practice through the 40's and 50's. This technology was fought by the Rockefeller Foundation and the AMA. They were curing cancer, aids, eye problems and more. Much is available on the subject and the frequency wave technology he built. He was an engineer, not a doctor by trade and also designed a microscope with a 17,000 magnification capability. This guy may have better luck, but watch out for the AMA and the Rockefeller foundation, big money at stake if people are actually cured.

[frankta]

I wonder if this radio machine is similar to the radio therapy, cause i always figured that's what radio therapy does as well. As this article is already over a year old are there any updates?
There is this <a href="http://www.cancer-alternative.org/"> cancer alternative treatment</a>, where they apply <a href="http://www.cancer-alternative.org/gene-therapy-for-cancer/">Gene Therapy for Cancer</a>, together with other treatments like Radio Therapy, Traditional Chinese Medicine and others. My brother is going there soon.

[isabelle33]

I know of another cancer cure. It's the combination of 2 supplements; Quercetin + Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). It works pretty well and is very cheap too. Quercetin is proven to kill cancer cells and can also shrink tumors in animals (rats). These supplements cost only $10 and can be bought from many vitamin stores. You should really try this if you have cancer....

[munpuppy]

Through a series of fortunate coincidences I was early diagnosed with earlystage malignant prostate cancer, had radical surgery scheduled, found alternate treatment, wound up with radio-active needle implantation. That was around eight years ago. PSA tested regularly over the years. Everything fine now without all the trauma of radical surgery. Men should get their PSA tested. Most doctors suggest it. Get a second opinion at local cancer treatment centers.

[EDSISSON]

I am a 40 yr old father of five with a great wife and six weeks ago I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. I was lifted after reading and watching the video of John?s great thinking outside the box to cure cancers. I am lucky to be in Pittsburgh being treated and I just wish I could help John make his dream come true. I share his drive. Edward Sisson

[fatcatbryant]

Mr.kanzius i really think it is a great thing that you are doing for other.

[fatcatbryant]

Mr.Kanzius my sister friend mom died the past Thursday of cancer on march 5,2009 and i really don't want any one that is really close to me to die on e so please help people with cancer

[TASHA1632]

Hi i will like to know if this machine is already available for patient , my dad have cancer and i wish,that he gets better please give me all the information or where we have to go to.
Thanks

[alee1965]

Please consider follow up story asap. Many cancer patients and survivors need this information...

Also consider an entire program on cutting edge research on breast cancer. There are exciting new breast therapies being studied , some quite noninvasive. I am a registered nurse who has studied this and would like to share ideas w/a producer. Thank you . Barbara lee

[iwsvinci]

I read the article and was very impressed. I understand how a single cancer tumor. In my wifes case the beam can from 2 systems. First a gold seed was injected into her cancer infected lymph node. The next treatment was 25 sessions of 3D/Conformal Radiation (no damage to other areas around the cancer tumor) and the second procedure and most effective was 5 treatments from the CyberKnife Radiosurgery System and again no damage to other cells. It worked, the cancer cell has been totally killed and elimated. I love to hear the possibility of injecting golden nanoparticles into the body and have them attach to the cancer cells, than zap them with the Kanzius system...It sad when you have to focus on reality and believe the hard core truth about power and control. A few of the comments I read made mention about how this system will never hit the market...I belive it. Unless the medical industry has control, we won''t see it. CyberKnife Radiosurgery unites and very expensive and under the control of medical centers. This treatments cost approximately $15,000.00 each. And in most cases the medical insurance carriers argue that the treatments and still experimental and investigational even though the FDA approved the treatments. They pay but you have to jump through all the hoops and stay focused. Well in closing I wish all the success to Mr. Kanzius, Dr. Curley and all the others working on this reseach project. Thank you, Leonard Vinci

[peekab001]

This sounds much like The Dr. Royal Rife Machine (using vibrational energy). Since the 30''s there have been many books, articles and newspapers published concerning Rife''s Research on Cancer and other diseases. Rife discovered that every virus, bacterium, parasite and other pathogen is particularly sensitive to a specific "frequency" of sound and can be destroyed by intensifying that frequency until it literally explodes - like an intense musical note that can shatter a wine glass!

[kickelhahn]

I have early stage of prostate cancer and this may be a solution for me. It is a slow growing process. Yet I fear that special interest groups may sabotage John Kansius'' experimentation. There is too much at stake here. Surgeons and pharmaceutical companies may not embrace this promising technology because they may not have enough patients all of a sudden.

[FLHT02]

Before anyone gets too excited it would pay to remember that the money is definitely in the treatment and not the cure. What do you want to see, a generalized cure? What would be done with all the Oncologists that prefer the life that they have become accustomed to? What of the hospitals that have invested heavily in the treatment equipment? What of the pharmaceutical companies that have invested billions in treatment compounds? What of the insurance companies that rule the types of treatment? Sure, these will all gladly bow out of the scene if a generalized cure is produced. NOT!! Most likely if the Kanzius system works effectively he will become wealthy and the general population will not realize any benefit. This type of subversion has been going on since the late 1800''s and it is not going to change without a major shift in the persona of the general population.

[natural_help]

This sounds similar to the Rife Frequency Generator of the 1930''s. It probably works, and will probably get black-balled by the medical establishment, as did the Rife machine. If the medical establishment can''t monopolize it and make loads of money they will squash and discredit it.

[nr1broker]

There were 2 segments of the Kanzius reports on the internet. What happened to the find of being able to burn salt water using the same technology? This would be a greater find than the cure for cancer.