NEWS: You’re Listening to 103.6FM, Curin’ Cancer to the Oldies

GEEK: You’re Listening to 103.6FM, Curin’ Cancer to the Oldies

John Kanzius is a retired radio executive living out his retirement in Florida. He may also be the man responsible for curing cancer. At first, when you read the story of his adventure into medical research, you might think "bullshit." But that's only until you read that several major medical research hospitals have taken up his cause, and that John has been raising millions of dollars to help fund research.

Radio waves! How? Powerful radio waves can heat metal, so John built a prototype high-powered radio transmitter in his garage, grabbed a hot dog, injected it with copper sulfate, and subjected it to his treatment. The hotdog heated to the point where cells would die, but only in the area of the injection. The rest of the hot dog was the same temperature as it had been before the test.



He nuked a hot dog. Big fuckin' deal, right? Yeah, actually. It kind of is. This device would allow doctors to focus treatment on a single area, neutralizing the targeted cells but leaving the surrounding cells healthy and unharmed.

To address the issue of injecting patients with metal, John suggested metal nanoparticles instead of chemical solutions. Trillions of nanoparticles can be injected into the body with just a few milliliters of solution.

Rick said "ho-ho, good luck with that," but shut his mouth when Curley called him back and let him know that he and Kanzius had managed to get his vial of nanoparticles to boil in Kanzius' machine. "Rick, you're not going to believe this. He just blew the smithereens out of your nanoparticles!" Rick paused and then responded: "Holy shit."

Unfortunately, there have been numerous studies that succeed in treating cancer in lab environments and in test animals, but fail in humans. Human trials are about four years away, and right now they can only target focused tumors (no metastasized cancers, yet), but the researchers involved are hopeful.

Sadly, John might not be around by the time his invention proves itself. His only option at this point is a bone marrow transplant, which would only prolong his pain and suffering.

fascinating stuff, and really quite astonishing. fingers crossed they get somewhere with this. good story, punk!

Yup, this is pretty awesome, great story, let's see how it goes.

I am all about us getting more and more accurate when it comes to killing cancer cells! I hope this, or an invention that stems from this will soon be able to kill just cancer cells anywhere in the body soon.

I wish these gentlemen the best of luck, and I hope he gets to be the 1st to try out his machine.

Wow, fantastic story,punk.

excellent story

i really hope this works in humans

I like nanoparticles in milk for breakfast.

Funny how something so simple can cure cancer (the radio waves I mean, not the nano thingies).

holy shit. As someone currently with cancer, I wonder if my toothbrush that plays music when it hits my teeth could help?

(just kidding)

seriously though, this is amazing, and I really hope it works and gets developed soon. It is, however, another reason we need more early detection. If you don't catch it before it spreads, this method (if it did end up working) wouldn't work

neat

Amazing.

Side note: give him a week, and Howard Stern will say that he did it first.

From what Iv'e seen on internet video sites, Stern's broadcasts seem to cure cancer of the clothes!

Good

And, AFAICT, this should work on humans quite nicely thank you. The reason that treatments work differently in animal tests is that the lab animals have (slightly) different biochemistries than humans (which is why you don't give dogs chocolate). This, OTOH, is physics-based. So it should work in humans as well.

I saw a piece on this on some news show but didn't quite follow how it all worked. Thanks for filling in the blanks. Fascinating story.

This is nothing really new, but is a refinement of current systems...if it works as well as it sounds like it does, then it needs to go forward...quickly...
It has always bothered me when people are told that there is a not proven cure, that could save their life...but it is still in the early stages...and not approved for use...
I'd rather die from the yet to be approved cure then cancer...at least it is a chance...and if I die from that, at least it may give some Data to the researchers to make it work for the next person...

sweet!

first off, no, this is not a refinement of current systems. radiation and chemotherapy are pretty much a 'scorched earth' method of fighting cancers, and even the so called 'radiation scalpel' is relatively indiscriminate, causing some damage to surround tissues. if this does pan out, it could be pretty awesome, allowing cancer treatment to be almost an out patient treatment.

and the FDA does allow people in certain situations to receive experimental treatments, but in order to verify the data and see just how effective it is, they have to be pretty stringent in their application of criteria for patients.

if you want any old treatment, just head south of the border.

This is pretty damn amazing. Thanks punk, great story.

This story made me smile thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big.

That's awesome. I hope it works. This guy should be given an award of some kind.

I really hope the inventor lives to see his ideas pan out big, I really do.

Yes. And that they help him

Good for this guy. I hope that things work out for him and that this actually will work.

The problem here is going to be getting the nanoparticles to bind to cancer cells only, which is a pretty big obstacle. They've been trying for years to target chemo drugs and it hasn't really worked out.

as i understand it (and no, i am not in medical school), targeting cells with nano particles is a much easier task than getting the chemo therapy chemicals to bind to cancerous cells.

again, totally anecdotal evidence with absolutely nothing behind it.