| On Dec. 15, 2008, Benno Schmidt of the CBS Early | | | | new therapy is moving along much faster than |
| Show reported on a BSA medical paper that will be | | | | anyone expected. |
| released in a few weeks, telling about a new therapy | | | | Why is this particular treatment moving faster than |
| treatment for 4 serious cancers. John Kanzius Cancer | | | | others in the past? John Kanzius says it is because of |
| Research Foundation is the founder and inventor of a | | | | the great financial support the Research Center has |
| new research technique that can target and kill | | | | raised to take the dream from his garage in 2005 to |
| cancer cells with little invasion to the body and no | | | | this point of scientific experimentation and validation; |
| side effects! | | | | starting out with one researcher and now utilizing 13 |
| The inventor, John Kanzius, is not a doctor, nor even | | | | project researchers. The research has garnered |
| does he possess a college degree. And yet, he has | | | | excitement and is moving forwards quickly with large |
| discovered a ground breaking research technique that | | | | health centers and hospitals joining the ranks of the |
| with 100% accuracy, can kill 4 types of cancer cell | | | | impressed observers. There will be 4 major health |
| tumors in rabbits. The quest was to find a way to | | | | centers involved in testing. |
| deliver nano-particles, which are little nano sized | | | | Steven Curley, M.D is the primary investigator of |
| pieces of carbon and gold delivered directly to the | | | | Kanzius' new cancer killing machine. Curley is from the |
| cells by sending it through the bloodstream. Once the | | | | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is |
| nano particles reach the cancer cells, then Kanzius | | | | convinced the radio wave therapy will work. He and |
| uses a radio wave therapy to heat and kill the cancer | | | | Kanzius went to The Regional Cancer Center in |
| cells. A big obstacle Kanzius strove to overcome was | | | | Millcreek Township to investigate the likely hood of |
| getting the nanoparticles to the cancer cells without | | | | this center being a testing facility for humans in the |
| harming the healthy cells. Another obstacle, was the | | | | next couple of years. This happens to be in the same |
| radio wave device itself. Currently it's only large | | | | city where the inventor himself lives. If the |
| enough to treat a small rabbit. So the device has to | | | | government approves, this will be an exciting cancer |
| be built larger and power intensity increased. John | | | | research project for the local research center to lead. |
| Kanzius is already working with a manufacturer to | | | | Inventor, John Kanzius personally takes calls from |
| develop a larger and stronger radio wave machine. | | | | people who are suffering and have been given a |
| Those two obstacles are not so impossible now. The | | | | terminal cancer diagnosis. They want to be treated |
| delivery system has worked on rats. The next step | | | | with the new radio wave therapy. Dr. Steven Curley |
| is to test more than 10,000 rats to prove the results. | | | | says he speaks to 40 people compared to every 1 |
| The new and improved radio wave system will start | | | | person Kanzius encounters. The treatment cannot be |
| testing on large animals and hopefully it will be ready | | | | used to treat people until the tests are run and the |
| for human testing in 5 years. Now that sounds like a | | | | government gives the final OK. Dr. Curley thinks the |
| long time, but most treatments take at least 10 | | | | time is close at hand, and hopes to see human |
| years to finally be approved for human testing. The | | | | testing in the next 2 years. |