A Potential Cure for Cancer began with Pie Plates and Hot Dogs
Thursday, January 24, 2008
John Kanzius, a former broadcast executive from Erie, Pennsylvania, with no prior medical training has invented, what may be, another way of fighting cancer.
Kanzius, who after having is own personal experience with cancer and the currently available treatements, set out to create a non-invasive cancer treatment using radio waves. The process would theoretically work like this, gold or carbon nanoparticles, no larger than one billionth of a meter would be injected into the cancer patient attaching themselves to cancerous cells. Once injected the patient would enter a machine that would emit radio waves theoretically heating and killing the cancerous cells leaving the adjacent, healthy cells intact and unaffected.
The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston has begun preliminary testing with Kanzius' invention and, although cautious with its declarations, the center says the complete killing of pancreatic cells in the laboratory is promising.
A man with no prior knowledge
of medicine and medical treatments, experimenting with pie plates and hot dogs, may have invented a new treatment, maybe even cure, for cancer. This shows innovation and invention in any field can come from the most unlikely of people.