Posted on 11/04/2007 7:58:19 AM PST by Zakeet
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - New research reports posted on the American Cancer Society's Web site late Tuesday suggest that a Florida man with no medical training may have invented a machine that could lead to a cure for cancer. "It gives me goose bumps that there might be a better way to do this and it looks like it's happening," said John Kanzius, inventor of the machine.
Kanzius, 63, is a former broadcast executive from Pennsylvania who wondered if his background in physics and radio could come in handy in treating the disease from which he suffers himself.
Created in his Sanibel Island, Fla., garage, Kanzius' contraption kills cancer cells using non-invasive radio waves, WPBF News 25 reported.
Kanzius explained that the science of his machine uses a solution filled with nanoparticles, each of which measure no more than one-billionth of a meter. A test subject would be injected with either gold or carbon nanoparticles, which would make their way through the body and attach to the cancerous cells. The test subject would then enter the machine and receive a dose of radio frequency waves, theoretically heating and killing the cancerous cells in moments and leaving nearby cells untouched.
In a recent experiment using his invention, scientists at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, received some promising results.
According to a report due to be released in Decemeber in the American Cancer Society's Journal, Cancer, during the experiment, six rabbits with liver tumors were injected with a nanoparticle solution and placed inside Kanzius' radio-frequency machine. Two minutes later, the tumors were completely gone and there was no major damage to the surrounding healthy cells, according to the report.
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google ‘poly mva’ and/or dr. jeff mueller in altamonte springs, fl.
poly mva apparently “rights” the ions and cures cancer (or stops it). read up on it. he’s never lost a patient.
Who cares? Any new light on defeating the menace of cancer is a good thing.
==> “This guy must have found certain properties that only cancer cells have....” <==
Not mentioned in anything I have seen. And what WAS mentioned was both gold and carbon particles, which have vastly different properties. Besides, what you describe is the holy grail of almost all of the current cancer research. The capability to find unique cancer cell characteristics that can be targeted by antibodies is being pursued all over the world, by all of the major drug companies and many other organizations.
Until the mechanism that purportedly causes these particles to preferentially attach to cancer cells is understood and controllable, this is snake oil.
My wife is just two years past breast cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatments, and is now suffering side effects from the prophylactic (maintenance) drugs that she will take for the next 8 years. I would love to see a cure, but I do not want to raise false hopes.
It seems possible. When I had Hodgkins, they fed me chemicals that went to the cancerous nodes, so they could get better CAT scans of them before and during treatment. This way, instead of taking a CAT scan, you zap the nodes.
I’d have to check, but I don’t think nano particles were around 30 years ago for this kind of experiment. They’ve been around a while now, but I think their availability for research is fairly recent.
That chemical - radioactively tagged glucose for a PET scan, for instance - is used by all cells, but consumed at slightly higher rates by more rapidly growing cells - such as tumors.
It is preferentially absorbed by tumors because of its chemical properties as a natural energy source for metabolic functions, and the slightly higher rate of consumption of tumors due to their higher growth rate. However, mucous membranes, hair and nails, and blood cells also absorb at a higher rate.
Hey skeptics and nay-sayers: this item has also been the topic of a previous thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890090/posts
In addition, Dr. Stephen Curly is a highly credentialed and well known oncologist and physician working on this treatment protocol at M.D. Anderson. His PowerPoint slides indicate that he (Dr. Curley) has also teamed up with Nobel prize winning chemists Robert Hogue and Rick Smalley at Rice University. He also admits the difficulty in targeting the cancer cells but also states that it is very possible. http://www.manp.org/assets/pdf/erieapril2007.pdf
Here are further comments and a bit about his credentials at nano-health alliance.
Perhaps this has the potential to be more than “Snake Oil”. Lets cut this some slack. For all the families ravaged by cancer, let us hope and pray that Dr. Curley and his team of Nobel Prize winning chemists and researchers can turn this basement invention (which was “ripped off” from 30 year-old research /sarcasm off) into something great for mankind.
Best of luck to you..I pray for all cancer victims and give thanks that I have survived for four years after diagnosis.
The PET scan has been described to me in the same way..it marks cells with high growth rate. I get my next one in Dec.
So maybe this invention is not wishfull thinking or bad science..but a real alternative to chemo and radiation.
In pure layman’s terms, this is how I understand a PET scan works. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. What happens is they inject you with a radioactive isotope with a very short half-life. The isotope bonds with glucose and goes all over your body in the blood stream.
Cancer cells are hyperactive in the metabolic process the glucose feeds the metabolic process. When the glucose, with the isotope riding on the molecule is metabolized, two positrons with the same electrical charge are released. With the laws of physics in force that like charges repel each other, the Positrons fly away from the point of metabolism and are captured by the device sensors and tracked back to their point of origin.
That is my understanding in the technology. The latest improvement is where they combine the CT scan and the PET scan into one procedure. This allows the CT to capture those lesions that can be seen (CT) with those lesions that may be missed. It also allows you to read the difference between dormant lesions and scar tissue from active cancers.
Does this make sense to you?
I am in my 5th year of fighting this little speed bump on life’s road. I have found my struggle to be much harder on my friends and family than it is on me. From the moment of my diagnosis, I have slept like a baby without any fear or apprehension along my path. I am doing all that I can and the rest is up to the Doctors and God. I feel very comfortable with my Doctors and God doing the heavy lifting in this struggle.
Keep the faith!
Have you heard about the doc in Rome using sodium bicarbonate to cure cancer? It changes the body PH. It may have validity.
Scam! Their "RIFE" machine is ham radio transceiver and page is full of garbage. Yea, fools pay $5000 for $800 transceiver. Con artists.
1) Higher blood flow, since the tumors are heavily vascularized, reproducing, and growing. 2) Future plans are to attach cell markers to the nanoparticles which would bind preferentially to the tumor cells.
After all that, you should be well nigh indestructible! I’m happy about the progress you’ve made, and good luck!
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