Posted on 02/18/2009 6:07:23 PM PST by Main Street
John Kanzius, the retired Erie television and radio station owner and engineer who grabbed the world’s attention by inventing a device that kills cancer cells, died Wednesday afternoon at a hospital near his winter home in Sanibel, Fla.
Kanzius, who also had a home in Millcreek Township, was 64.
Kanzius died from pneumonia, a complication from two rounds of chemotherapy he had recently undergone.
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Oh this is really sad. This guy was something else and his device appears to be the real deal.
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What a sad loss. Don’t watch CBS 60 Minutes, but stumbled across a really nice piece on him.
What a sad loss. Don’t watch CBS 60 Minutes, but stumbled across a really nice piece on him.
This man was brilliant! His sister goes to my church, so I’ve known about him for years. The world has lost an extraordinary man. “Vechnaja pamjat!”
I’m sorry to read that title. Thanks for the ping.
I really don’t mean to be a (bad word). But, if his cancer killing tech works, why was he on chemo? That said, I love tech like his idea.
Not all cancers are the same. Basically, each type is a separate disease.
The nanoparticles have to be bound to something that the cancer cells will specifically bind to, otherwise other cells will also be killed.
Very sad. A great guy with a great idea.
In a sad case of irony, his cancer treatment doesn’t work on the type of cancer he had.(leukemia) But it seems to show promise in liver, pancreatic and other types of cancers affiliated to specific organs. MD Anderson Medical Center in Texas and the University of Pittsburgh have been doing clinical trials using his technique on animals. There has been 100% success in killing human cancer cells in rabbits.
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