I especially love that he refuses to sell out to the pharmaceutical companies and venture capitalists.
It'd be nice to see little Erie, PA be the place where cancer is killed.
It’s a nice story but I would prefer to hear some persuasive discussion — i.e. “The device shows promise BECAUSE when it was tested on this or that, this or that happened.”
My BS antenna is twitchin’, I can’t help it.
Smacks of the 100 mpg carb that the oil companies were always buying.
I’m just sayin’.
Good luck to him, none-the-less.
God bless this guy whether this works or not. I must admit when I first started reading my initial thought was, “this is just another scam”. His excitement is infectious and it seems he has his heart and mind in the right place and quite a few with sterling credentials that believe he may have something good.
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Um, if you can come up with ways of delivering X to the cancer cells, but not to normal cells, then (more or less) the treatment X will work, if X = something bad for cells. Any kind of cancer, anywhere in the body.
Seems to me the trick is getting X only to the cancer cells. It's hard to get radiation only to cancer cells without also going through & hitting normal cells. Chemo, same thing. Here, it's not described well but it sounds like the idea is to engineer nanoparticles that "tag" only cancer cells so as to make them respond (resonate?) to certain RF frequency, which will kill those cells preferentially but not others.
Great, but how does one do that? How close are they to doing that? Is it even possible? How? Nothing in this article gives me any idea how close or far, how plausible or remote a possibility the "tagging" part is. And seems to me that's the main part!
Anyone could come up with a treatment that will work "if you can just get it to the cancer cells and not to the normal cells". If I could just get fire to cancer cells and not to normal cells, I'd have a cure for cancer! But that's hard.
Crock
Once he repeated this stupid conspiracist lunacy, he lost me.
Sounds like it could happen very soon.
Praying that this works as I pray for ladyinred.
Thanks, Paved Paradise.
==> “If we can come up with ways of delivering these particles to the cancer cells, but not to normal cells,” Curley said, “this treatment will work. There’s not a doubt in my mind. Any kind of cancer, anywhere in the body!” <==
And if I had some bread, we would have everything necessary for a baloney sandwich.
Attaching a marker to cancer cells - ONLY cancer cells - is the holy grail of cancer research. The real researchers are trying to find external surface molecules unique to cancer cells and create antibodies that will attach to them, thus marking them for destruction and removal by existing natural processes in the body.
But cancer cells are defective in their reproductive machinery, so their character changes rapidly through generations, and the markers change as well. NOTHING in this article describes how these particles will associate with a majority of cancer cells while avoiding all normal cells in the body. This article is an act of cruelty.
If this is what it looks like, everyone in the world should be praying hard for this guy.
You got it.
My son was recently diagnosed with an aggressive type of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, if this guy is on to something real he can't get it on the market fast enough to suit me.
I have to say though, a lot of people over the last 50 years have claimed that they had a cure for cancer but it turned that out they didn't. Cautious but hopeful here.
From MD Anderson’s website on Dr. Curley...
http://utm-ext01a.mdacc.tmc.edu/dept/pub/resrepv2.nsf/183e659df33a35188625662c0017b401/eee9091a3fd610ef862570c0005e0f01?OpenDocument
Seven years ago, we began preclinical studies utilizing radiofrequency ablation for thermal destruction of hepatic malignancies. The preclinical studies led to clinical trials that began 5 years ago. Our group has now performed radiofrequency ablation in more than 450 patients with primary or metastatic hepatic malignancies, and we have defined the indications, limitations, and complications associated with this treatment. The results of our phase I and II clinical trials utilizing radiofrequency ablation led to successful United States Food and Drug Administration approval of radiofrequency ablation as a treatment in patients with hepatic malignancies.
Said Kanzius, "venture capitalists, big pharmaceuticals that might want to buy this to tempt me and stop the research, not going to happen. There is no amount of money that can buy me off. You can not put a price on a human life."
fyi ping.
God Bless these folks in their research and attempts to eradicate cancer.
LOL! I really did laugh out loud. That little "if," far from being a trivial problem, has already exhausted billions of dollars of research.
Ladies and gentlemen, hang on to your purses and wallets. My scam-o-meter is pegged.
I hope the team is successful. I was treated with radiation after my lumpectomy. Unfortunately, “the cure was worse than the disease”. I developed an angiosarcoma due to the radiation and had to have my breast removed last month. Can’t fault the doctors since that was the accepted method of treatment.
Radio Frequencies, Magnetic Pulsing, and various other electronic devises have had success in treating and killing cancer cells. Wishing all the best to this endeavor! Pray that conventional medicine will some day embrace approaches other than the cut, poison, burn protocols that are the norm.
It is well to remember this: Chemo cures cancer and the earth is flat.