Posted on 05/06/2017 1:17:31 PM PDT by Main Street
No local research project has ever grabbed the attention of northwestern Pennsylvanians quite like John Kanzius’ Noninvasive Radiowave Cancer Device.
The late Millcreek Township inventor’s cancer-killing machine has been featured in local news stories for more than 10 years. It was even the focus of reports on the CBS news program “60 Minutes.”
The device works by emitting radio waves that heat and destroy cancer cells that have either been treated with chemotherapy or targeted with tiny pieces of metal called nanoparticles. It had been proven to kill cancerous cells and tumors in pigs and smaller animals without harming the animals.
Momentum for the Kanzius device built steadily from 2002, when the retired broadcaster started tinkering in the garage of his winter home in Sanibel, Florida, until 2015, when lead researcher Steven Curley, M.D., said clinical human trials for the device could begin in Naples, Italy, as soon as the summer of 2016.
Nearly $10 million in donations flowed into the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation, which was created solely to raise money for research on the device. Obituaries of Erie-area people who died from cancer often included requests that donations be made to the foundation in lieu of flowers.
The fundraising was so successful that the foundation closed in 2014, saying it had met its goal.
But now the Kanzius device’s future is muddled, frustrating researchers, donors and even Kanzius’ widow.
Human trials for the Kanzius device have been put on hold indefinitely.
(Excerpt) Read more at goerie.com ...
Kanzius Cancer Research Delayed Indefinitely Amid Legal Fights
March 10, 2017
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2017/03/10/kanzius-cancer-research-delayed-indefinitely-amid-legal-fights/98846852/
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Thousands of people are dying from this dreaded disease every single day...families and loved ones are being devastated. And they stop human trials and do nothing!!! What insanity! It’s evil, legalized manslaughter on a massive scale to let people suffer and die like this when this highly successful treatment exists now!
Some questions I’s like them to answer:
John did not want his wife to sell the rights after he was gone. Why did she sell against his wishes?
Why did Dr. Steven Curley move the research away from gold nano-shells to chemo, when that was exactly what john invented his machine to get away from, and they had such great success with gold nano-shells?
They raised the $10,000,000 on the pretense that it was the amount needed to get this to human trials. Now, Curley claims it isn’t it enough??
Why isn’t the Governor of PA, the PA Senators and Congressmen in Washington pushing for funds for this project?
In light of the present Administration in Washington wanting to fast track new and experimental treatments for cancer and other diseases; has Curley, or any of his associates in the medical and business sectors related to this treatment attempted to contact this administration for help and funding??
Many people volunteer part of their time to help others (Doctor’s Without Borders, ect.). Why do you never hear about Researchers and Lab Techs volunteering some of their time to get a project (that could ultimately save their lives and the lives of their loved ones), up and running to completion??
How can these people that are holding this project up, at the cost of the suffering and lives of millions, sleep at night? How can they live with themselves?
With Cancer striking almost one in two people, they and their loved ones are not immune from this life threatening and devastating disease. What is wrong with these people?!
Everyone has a price and maybe $10M is not enough to grease all of the palms being held out to get a piece of the action. $10M in the world of corporations and government regulation is miniscule. Altruism seems to have disappeared with Albert Schweitzer.
Too much money being made in thr cancer “industry”.
You know the Kanzius device works because of all the roadblocks being thrown up.
Stop believing hype. If it worked others would be interested.
Because research is incredibly expensive. Even if we decided to forego salaries (and I do not know anyone who can survive without a source of income), the cost of equipment and supplies would be prohibitive.
Do you really expect us to work without a salary *and* front the money to buy equipment that can run over $100,000 *and* buy hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of reagents every week over the next few decades so that we can do the research to cure cancer? I don't know any researcher who can afford that.
I know that you didn’t discover the cure for cancer. An article announces another cure just about every other day. I wish it were true but it isn’t. Even capping your funds at ten million dollars makes no sense for someone trying to develop a cure for cancer.
Let me just say that I am highly skeptical.
Radio waves to heat and kill cancer cells, but do not cause damage to normal cells? That sounds odd.
I’m guessing that it sounds odd to the FDA, as well. *If* there is a way to target high-energy radio waves at cancer cells, then why not do the human clinical trials here? Why in Italy?
BTW, the radiation therapy currently used to treat cancer *is* a radiowave. It is very high frequency, high energy, and the way it works is that it causes DNA damage to cells in its path. This triggers the cells to kill themselves.
I don't get why you made the comment about me not discovering the cure for cancer. I'm doing what I can.
I'm also curious as to the reason for your apparent cynicism. Is that all it is, or is there some knowledge behind it. The technology in the article was scheduled for clinical trials in 2016 before 20% of the funding was stolen.
Nothing odd about it. Cancerous tissue is different from normal tissue. Certain nutrients/chemicals can accumulate in tumors but not regular tissue. There is MUCH research ongoing to take cells from a specific individuals cancer, do a DNA/RNA analysis to determine how they differ from the healthy cells from the same individual....then synthesize an agent that will bond ONLY to the DNA of the tumor. Then attach that agent to a nanoparticle or to a molecule of chemo reagent. Said agent will then bond ONLY to the tumor. If a nanoparticle, microwave excitation will heat the tumor selectively....if a chemo molecule, the chemo will attack only the tumor and not surrounding healthy tissue.
Bottom line....only the cancerous cells are killed.
Easy. Just find a way to make the treatment ruinously expensive. It’ll be approved mos rikitik.
I would posit oncologists, AMA, and pharma don’t want a cure...they likely lobby the FDA like there is no tomorrow.
Probably just like Dr. Christian Bernard pioneering his heart transplants in South Africa....no ambulance chasers.
it causes DNA damage to cells in its path. This triggers the cells to kill themselves.
They also have a protein they inject, "painting" the cancer cells. That causes the immune system to attack and remove them.
The reason cancer can exist is because it has your same DNA identity. The body leaves it alone.
No, others would NOT be interested. There are millions to be made with the Kanzius radio-wave apparatus. There are TRILLIONS to be made offering false hope to those under a death sentence. Big Medicine and Big Pharma are simply not going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
What happened to the money donated?
Biochemically, the difference between cancer cells and normal cells is slight. The main difference is that cancer cells have lost regulation of their growth through alterations in gene expression—and that is not a difference that can be detected through chemical methods. Some PCR techniques can pick up on certain differences—for instance, if the DNA sequence of a gene promoter has been altered. Immunohistochemistry can pick up differences in protein expression.
If all cancer cells were significantly different from regular cells, then cancer wouldn’t be a problem because the body’s immune system would recognize and kill it. But *most* cancer cells present themselves to the immune system just like every other cell.
Most chemotherapies take advantage of the fact that (most) cancer cells are rapidly growing, and (most) normal cells grow slowly or not at all. So they target growing cells. Unfortunately, that also affects normal cells that grow rapidly, such as the epithelial cells lining the intestines. Some of the newer chemotherapies are immune-based, and target proteins that are expressed at higher levels in cancer cells than in normal cells. So all cells expressing those specific proteins are targeted, but the cancer cells get a higher dose because of the higher levels of the target proteins.
The only thing I can envision with the radio waves is to tag cancer cells with an antibody or other protein that preferentially binds cancer cells and is covalently linked to some molecule that resonates at specific radio frequencies. Such a technique would also kill some proportion of normal cells, just as radiotherapy and chemotherapy does. While such a technique might be theoretically possible, I am rather skeptical that a retired broadcaster could understand biochemistry, cancer biology, electromagnetism, etc., to the extent necessary to come up with such a technique. And it’s unlikely he would have been doing this sort of research in his garage.
Radiation therapy does not inject proteins into cells. It causes double-strand DNA breaks, which usually causes cells to undergo programmed cell death, aka apoptosis.
Some of the newer immunochemotherapies can "inject" proteins and other molecules into cells. It is not really an injection--altered antibodies target and bind a protein on the surface of the cell, and once they bind, the cell "swallows" the antibody. Then whatever drug is linked to the antibody acts directly on the cell. This is just one method of trying to kill cancer cells. There are many, many different strategies used... there are many different diseases called "cancer", and each of them has to be treated differently.
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