Radio Waves Cure Cancer?

Posted on April 16, 2008 by strugglingwriter

I saw this amazing story on Gizmodo yesterday about a man who has leukemia and has found a potential cure/no side effects treatment for cancer using radio waves.  John Kanzius could ‘t sleep one night due to his chemotherapy and started to think. He got the idea that radio waves could kill cancer cells and decided to build a prototype machine using pie pans and conducted tests on hot dogs injected with copper sulfate—the radio waves only heat up metal spots, the theory being this will kill just the copper infused cancer cells, without harming any of the other cells.

It’s an amazing story and it just might work. They are doing clinical trials right now. Go ahead and click on the link and watch the video from 60 Minutes. It’s an inspiring piece, and I’ll admit I had a bit of a tear in my eye at the end.

This really shows me the strength of the human spirit and how when faced with an enormous challenge and possible end of life, people will do all in their power to just get a little bit more time. Mr. Kanzius may not make it to see the cure, but just possibly he will have helped those that come after him, and that has to be comforting.

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11 Responses to “Radio Waves Cure Cancer?”

  1. Novembrance, on April 16th, 2008 at 10:40 am Said:

    Fantastic story! I love it.

  2. christine eldin, on April 16th, 2008 at 11:04 am Said:

    I haven’t seen the 60 minutes video, but just from your description/explanation it sounds doable. Just amazing. I’ll try to find out more.

    By the way, I’ve left this message a few places, but wanted to let you know that for some (seemingly) random reason, I’m not always able to view blogs real-time. Today I can, but yesterday I couldn’t get past last week’s posts.

    But I truly enjoy your blog! You have lots of interesting stuff!! So if I’m not posting real-time, I’m still lurking.

    Love your towel day post too! :-)

  3. strugglingwriter, on April 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm Said:

    Christine - glad to see you back!

    I’m not sure why you aren’t seeing things real-time. Some sort of time-continuum problem? Just kidding. Maybe you browser is chaching pages for some reason. Does hitting refresh help? Also, I have a little used feature here, the RSS feed, which might help:

    http://strugglingwriter.wordpress.com/feed/

    Paul

  4. Rob, on April 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pm Said:

    This is really cool news. Great to see some real potential progress.

    Ctrl+F5 will trigger a clean refresh that will ignore any cached pages, Christine. Hopefully that will help.

    (PS: I use the feed!)

  5. strugglingwriter, on April 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm Said:

    Rob - You use the feed? That’s cool to know.

  6. Helen, on April 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pm Said:

    I’m so glad I read your blog this morning. This is a gloomy day for a number of reasons but reading what you read made me feel positive again. I’ve heard so many variations on the “modern technology causes cancer” theme (pylons, plastics etc) that it’s interesting and inspiring to hear that the situation could be reversed.

  7. Rob, on April 17th, 2008 at 2:32 am Said:

    I use feeds to all my regular sites. If there isn’t a feed available, I’ll probably not keep up with it.

  8. SzélsőFa, on April 17th, 2008 at 6:43 am Said:

    This might really cmoe useful! Wow.

  9. Taffiny, on April 17th, 2008 at 8:25 am Said:

    Really intriguing. It would be so fantastic if it works. (the whole current way of killing cancer cells is horrible, but I suppose the best chance people have to get better). I hope to God it does work, and that he lives to see the first person cured.

  10. strugglingwriter, on April 17th, 2008 at 9:49 am Said:

    Helen -I’m glad you stopped by too and happy to make things a little better. I hope today is better

    Szelsofa - Let’s hope!

    Taffiny - you and me both :)

  11. paperback writer, on April 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pm Said:

    I saw that….and I’m hoping it works!

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