July 20, 2008
The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?
Inventor Tells 60 Minutes He Hopes To Live Long Enough To See Machine Cure Humans
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The Kanzius Machine
Lesley Stahl meets a man who invented a machine that may kill cancer cells using radio waves. (This segment was originally broadcast on April 13, 2008.)
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John Kanzius, a cancer patient, invented a machine that uses radio waves to kill cancer cells. Harry Smith speaks with Kanzius and Dr. Steven Curley, who is testing the device.
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"So we take the nanoparticles, we put 'em in the radio field. And in about 15 seconds, they’re boiling and heating and Steve Curley couldn't contain himself. He called Rick Smalley and he said, 'Rick, you’re not going to believe this. He just blew the smithereens out of your nanoparticles,'" Kanzius recalled.
Smalley's response? "The only thing that I got out of him after this pause was, “Holy s…,'" Curley recalled.
Not long after that day, Smalley died of lymphoma. Once a skeptic, he had become one of Kanzius' biggest supporters.
"He didn’t expect it, but he embraced it to his death bed when he told Dr. Curley this will change medicine forever. Don't stop, no matter what you do," Kanzius told Stahl.
And they haven't stopped. 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.
"What you can see is that cells are starting to fall apart. You see white spaces in between them. The body of the cell is shrinking, the cells are starting to die," Geller pointed out.
"And can you tell from this whether the area surrounding the tumor had any destruction?" Stahl asked.
"Grossly inspecting the animal, we did not see not see any damage to the surrounding tissue," Geller said.
So far, the Kanzius method has only been applied to solid, localized tumors in animals. The ultimate goal is to treat cancer that has metastasized or spread to other parts of the body. Those undetectable rogue cells are what most often kill people with cancer and the trick is finding them.
"If we can't target the microscopic cells this is not going to be a cure," Curley said.
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See all 264 CommentsThank You John Kanzius.
My best hopes are that you too benefit from a cure.
dogsoul your language certainly adds nothing to a conversation except a display of ignorance.
You are so right, how many other better cures are out there that the drug companies squash because it would interfere with their business. How easy it is for major corporations to kill a brilliant idea, just so they can keep their profits.
After all, if you cure someone, they don''t need to buy your drugs anymore.
You''ll need to go to Canada or Europe for this non-drug remedy, just like you have to now for biofeedback and other so-called "alternative" (i.e. alternative to drugs) cancer treatments that actually WORK. As long as the big drug companies have a powerful lobby in America, devices like this will be discredited and/or outlawed.
Somehow, this statement leads me to doubt your claim. If you were in the top 5%, you would be able to understand that intelligence is only a measure of the information you have access to, whether in your brain, or in your computer.
Information is intelligence, knowing how to use intelligence is wisdom. Do you possess more information than 95% of the world''s population?
Seeing as how quantum physics is nothing more than the study of mathematical abstractions to explain the nature of matter and energy in the universe, and is no more "intelligent" than an aboriginal forest dwellers knowledge of how best to survive in their own environment, it is highly doubtful.
Posted by uc2it at 03:03 AM : Apr 11, 2008
Priceless! Thanks for keeping the academic stereotype alive! And, of course, the best laugh we''ll get today, so thank you for that.
I pray this guy is correct but if he is, expect him either to have a sudden course of Death or that the machine will be purchased by a front company for Big Pharma and then thrown in the river.
I think you are a Big Pharma plant and a Snob and I fully expect that you fully support the Global Warming and the Bird Flu p r i c k s not to mention MMR.
According to a story published elsewhere, he was later able to secure a sample of carbon nanotubes, following his earlier hot dog experiments. To the amazement of many, he was able to boil water with the carbon nanotubes mixed in. This behavior was totally unexpected by researchers, as the nanotubes are far too small to be resonant at those frequencies. An explanation of how these particles heat at these low frequencies has not been made public to my knowledge.
As carbon nanotubes have not been approved for human research, gold nanotubes will probably be used, if and when tests are conducted on humans. Early reports indicate that healthy test tissue within 1 millimeter of the treated tissue suffered no damage by the process.
It is highly doubtful any possible cure for cancer will ever find it''s way toward benefiting humanity as long as the drug companies are in control of politicians. For them, there is no profit in it.... and our government won''t allow it either because they would have to pay most of us social security longer.
Pathetic, but true...
All reasearchers working for the drug companies are under strict orders to NOT develop any cures for anything. What they work on and develop full-time is TREATMENTS.
A cure is a short-term investment by a patient, whereas a treatment is a LIFE TIME COMMITTMENT, a never-ending stream of money to drug companies and the health care system.
I built one and have used it for the last 5 years...
I had prastate cancer..it is gone......some one in your employ is not doing thier home work......GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DO
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google it he did it and not one word!!!
big oil get to him?
big gov.??
his machine can also do this
modify a few oil burning water boiling plants and bingo!!!
google it he did it AND NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THIS!!!
big oil get to him?
big gov.??
his machine can also do this
modify a few oil burning, water boiling plants and bingo!!!
google it he did it AND NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THIS!!!
big oil get to him?
big gov.??
I am very disappointed by 60 min. that they didnt even mention this.
that attach to the Aids Virus could carry the nano
metal particles and burn the virus.
his machine can also do this
modify a few oil burning, water boiling plants and bingo!!!
google it he did it AND NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THIS!!!
big oil get to him?
big gov.??
I am very disappointed by 60 min. that they didnt even mention this.
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