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Inventor may have breakthrough in killing cancer cells
wkyc.com ^ | :8/22/2007 | Michael O'Mara

Posted on 08/22/2007 6:47:15 PM PDT by Main Street

Inventor from Erie, P.A. teams up with leading cancer center.



The work has been quietly been going on for the last three years in a no-frills laboratory in Erie, Pennsylvania. Inventor, John Kanzius, working with Jim and Charlie Rutkowski, have been perfecting a device that will kill cancer cells with a radio frequency.

This humble workspace could soon become the epicenter of one of the most stunning scientific breakthroughs in cancer treatment in years.

Using the Kanzius RF machine and special nanoparticles, it appears that cancer cells can be targeted and killed without harming the rest of the body.

This is a deeply personal mission for John Kanzius. He is struggling to beat leaukemia. And he knows firsthand how tough standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation can be on the body.

Kanzius told Channel 3's Mike O'Mara that, "If this ends up working they way it looks, it really could be the holy grail of cancer research."

The entire city of Erie is buzzing about John's invention. Two weekends ago, thousands turned out for a motorcycle rally called "Roar On The Shore". All the money is going to help John's cancer research.

Ralph Pontillo is the head of the Erie Manufacturers Association. He is proud that his city can help the Kanzius project.

"It's amazing, said Ralph, "that in the very near future someone is going to stick a pin on a map and say this is where cancer was cured. And that pin is going to be Erie, Pennsylvania. That blows your mind and that is inconceivable."

Former Erie Mayor, Joyce Savocchio, said "there are nights that I think about it and I can't go to sleep. It just enfolds you that you are on the brink of history and something so enormous that you can't imagine it."

The excitement is not limited to Erie, Pennsylvania. In Houston, Texas at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, a team of scientists believe that John Kanzius has the key to something extraordinary.

MD Anderson is one of the most respected cancer centers in the world. 79 thousand cancer patients were treated at the huge campus in Houston last year.

Doctor Steven Curley is leading the research team at MD Anderson. Dr. Curley is the author of over 110 publications and 30 book chapters, many dealing with the treatment of patients with hepotocellular cancer, gallbladder cancer, bile duct cancer, or liver metastases.

Curley is brimming with cautious optimism.

"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!"

Doctor Curley's team is ready to publish their first results using laboratory animals. So far, the targeted nanoparticles and the Kanzius RF machine have passed every test.

"There is a great deal of work that has to be done", said Curley. "However, I suspect once the manuscripts are published, there's going to be a real rush of excitement about this whole process. I've already warned John to get ready because the floodgates are about to open."

Kanzius wants to make sure his invention does not get sidelined by an unsympathetic corporation that might not want see an effective treatment on the market.

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."

When the revolutionary treatment is ready for human clinical trials, you can bet that Erie, Pennsylvania will go to the front of the line. And why not, since the inventor lives just a few miles away.


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1 posted on 08/22/2007 6:47:17 PM PDT by Main Street
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To: Main Street

This will be great if it works.


2 posted on 08/22/2007 6:48:25 PM PDT by Niuhuru (businesslinkshere.com)
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To: Main Street

Appears to be the same guy who claims his radio wave device can produce energy from burning seawater. I’m not optimistic he is solving the energy crisis AND cancer in his basement.


3 posted on 08/22/2007 6:53:35 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Main Street

Finally the answer to “Whats the frequency Kenneth ?”


4 posted on 08/22/2007 6:54:10 PM PDT by festus (I'm a fRedneck and proud of it.)
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To: Main Street
The work has been quietly been going on for the last three years in a no-frills laboratory in Erie, Pennsylvania. Inventor, John Kanzius, working with Jim and Charlie Rutkowski, have been perfecting a device that will kill cancer cells with a radio frequency.

What's the frequency and has the FCC already considered it the property of others? ; )

5 posted on 08/22/2007 6:55:15 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Main Street
Is this the same guy that thought that using saltwater would also be a replacement for gas to power engines? He looks familiar.

Best of luck to him--I hope he is successful. We lost our 11 year old nephew a few months ago to leukemia. I pray this guy can eradicate cancer.

6 posted on 08/22/2007 6:55:59 PM PDT by arbee4bush (Our Airman Daughter KB4W--Hero, Patriot and the Love of her mom & dads life!)
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To: Main Street

His buddy Charlie Rutkowski is also quoted in articles about his energy generating device. Unfortunately, I suspect there is nothing here.


7 posted on 08/22/2007 6:57:21 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Williams
The work has been quietly been going on for the last three years in a no-frills laboratory in Erie, Pennsylvania. Inventor, John Kanzius, working with Jim and Charlie Rutkowski, have been perfecting a device that will kill cancer cells with a radio frequency.

Oh I don't know, for I have been a HAM radio operator for all of my adult life and have worked on multi-band Avionics systems for over 30 years and have never been inflicted with any form of cancer. /snicker.

8 posted on 08/22/2007 6:59:16 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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Riiiiight. Seems like a guy wants a bit of attention. The trick, here, of course, is how to get whatever ‘nanoparticles’ you have to attach themselves to only the cancer cells. If you can do that, there are about 10000 different ways to actually kill them.

There are multitude of research labs working on exactly the problem of marking the cancer cells with a protein sequence and delivering a killing compound attached to it.

A guy that names his machine with his own name, uses RF rays and also comments how the evil corporatists would take his research and hide it to kill people for profit just seems like another sad case of tin foil head.


9 posted on 08/22/2007 7:01:36 PM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: Main Street
Dr. Curley at MD Anderson IS working on radio frequencies to kill tumors BUT I haven't seen a real tie in to this inventor.

Also, I ran into an article about Dr. Curley in which he stated radio ablation is limited to small tumors as he has found it doesn't work on larger ones.

I fear you have acase here of a self proclaimed inventor throwing in references to a real doctor even though the two are not connected.

10 posted on 08/22/2007 7:03:21 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Main Street
The work has been quietly been going on for the last three years in a no-frills laboratory in Erie, Pennsylvania.

That's the missing link that all of humanity has overlooked in the quest to cure cancer.

I'm sure of it!

Frill's have always been a deadly imposition on life IMO.

11 posted on 08/22/2007 7:04:35 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Main Street

12 posted on 08/22/2007 7:07:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Support the troops, Support Petraeus)
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To: farlander

“There are multitude of research labs working on exactly the problem of marking the cancer cells with a protein sequence and delivering a killing compound attached to it.”

Yeah, too bad journalists don’t put in their research time anymore. Naomi Halas at Rice University and another group out of Arkansas have been using nanoparticles irradiated with a slightly different frequency to target tumors for quite some time.


13 posted on 08/22/2007 7:08:31 PM PDT by Flightdeck (Go Longhorns)
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To: Williams
I’m not optimistic he is solving the energy crisis AND cancer in his basement.

One never knows for sure.

I'm going to work on becoming rich in finding a way to fit the population of the Earth into this guys basement!

If I can accomplish that I could be revered as a close imitation to the 2nd coming.

14 posted on 08/22/2007 7:10:49 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Main Street
Inventor from Erie, P.A.

I didn't know there even was an Erie in the Palestinian Authority.

15 posted on 08/22/2007 7:12:31 PM PDT by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: Williams
I suspect there is nothing here.

You tote a keen insight Williams. ; )

16 posted on 08/22/2007 7:14:25 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: festus
  Finally the answer to “Whats the frequency Kenneth ?”

Or rather, "What's the frequency, Kanzius?"
17 posted on 08/22/2007 7:14:26 PM PDT by Mike-o-Matic
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To: farlander
Those two lines stuck out as a big red flag as well.

First, selectively getting (fill in the blank) to only attach to cancer cells is the primary problem, not killing them.

Second, that paranoia that some evil company would buy up the technology and hide it was way, way over the top. As if a thing like that could ever be hidden once discovered or that it would ever make any kind of economic sense to do so...

18 posted on 08/22/2007 7:16:01 PM PDT by DB
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To: Main Street
Japan has already had a similar nano cure for years. They put the chemo in bucky balls( or something similar) and injected the patient. These small containers of poison migrated to the tumors and bypassed the normal tissue. Tumors that suck a larger amount of blood got the bigger dose of poison. They cured many terminal patients. The side effects were minimal, and the patients got concentrated doses directly to the tumor. I’m not sure why its not common today or what the problems might have been. Maybe the drug companies really DON’T want to cure cancer or heart disease.

I also saw a laser zap plaque from heart arteries from the inside as a scope filmed the whole procedure. No balloons, stents, or bypass. Just a clean vein when done. This was many years ago, long enough to be commercial if it was ever going to be. Maybe the zapped area grew a scab, who knows?

19 posted on 08/22/2007 7:16:20 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: Main Street

Bookmarked - thanks for the post - God bless and keep this man and his work.


20 posted on 08/22/2007 7:20:27 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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