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60 minutes will air an update tonight on the radio-wave cancer cell killer created by John Kanzius (1944-2009). It has had astoundingly good lab results - I think I heard that it had 100% cancer-cell kill rate! Should be a great show to watch!!! I wish he could have lived long enough to see the fantastic results his discovery/invention has, and to see what a miracle this will/might be for cancer patients everywhere!
Erin
Thanks for posting this or I would have missed it!! I remember when my mom was first diagnosed with sclc in March, the Kanzius machine was the first thing I came across as I desperately searched the internet for some hope. We were still in shock at the time and I was excited that this could help with a cure soon. Over time and after doing more research I hadn't thought much of it although I've saved the link. I'm thrilled to hear it's coming back in the spotlight again- hopefully it is something that is soon to be a reality!!
Jessica
Thanks for the update, I'll have to watch for sure.- John
I MISSED IT!!!!! I got an update on email last night from the Kanzius site and sent a notice to a group of email friends. Settled in to watch it ---- football was on the channels here...what is the update? How long before they think it will make it to trials?
Bridget
I watched it and as usual there was no mention of lung cancer that I heard.
I tuned in right before the showed his funeral. What I did see looks good. They think it might be ready in 4 years for human trials. They might not have mentioned lung cancer, but I sure hope it works for lung cancer.
Barb
omg 4 years seems a lifetime away.......
If you missed the CBS 60 minutes program on Sunday, you can go to 60 minutes on the Internet and read the interview or watch the video.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/15/60minutes/main5386080_page4.shtml ?tag=contentMain;contentBody
Using electrical microcurrents (completely side-effect free) is having some similar success to the Kanzius radio waves and is further along. Novo-cure is now doing clinical trials for both brain and lung cancer. So far most of the brain cancer participants have had tumor reduction. See the following web site to watch how the microcurrent actually stops the cancer cell from reproducing.
www.novocuretrial.com/
I have purchased an Electro-Acuscope - which is an kissing cousin to the Novo-Cure device and is FDA approved for pain management. I've been using it a month and love it. It has reduced the inflammation and pain from my pleural lining against the ribs down to nothing. My CEA score went from 217 to 133 in a week. We'll see in my next CT scan whether it has reduced the tumor size. It's very relaxing with no side effects.
Another hopeful fact is that Johnson and Johnson just put a batch of money into the Novo-Cure electrical device News release is below.
"Cancer treatment co NovoCure gets Pfizer investment" Johnson & Johnson also participated in the financing round.Gali Weinreb1 Oct 09 10:44
Medical device start-up NovoCure Ltd. has competed a financing round led by Pfizer Ventures, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation and Index Ventures. Pfizer Ventures is the investment arm of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE; LSE: PFZ), and Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation is the investment arm of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ).
NovoCure did not disclose the size of the round, but based on previous transactions, the company probably raised more than $10 million."
This Johnson & Johnson investment is particularly good news because the $1.7 trillion chemo industry is not too keen to have a non-toxic electrical device that kills cancer. The fascinating book about Dr. Rife's electrical cancer killer,e.g., "The Cancer Cure that Worked! Fifty Years of Suppression" goes into a lot of detail about Rife's difficulty of getting past economic strongholds of cancer treatment (AMA, drug co's). Rife's San Diego Cancer clinic cured 19 out of 19 cancer patients. The head of the AMA wanted to buy into the Rife machine -Rife refused so the AMA shut Rife down.
So we may not have to wait 4-8 years for the Kanzius machine to see a side-effect free alternative to chemo emerge!
Look up NovoTTF in clinicaltrials.gov if you want to follow what is being done currently.
Sheila
Thanks for the heads up. I usually watch 60 Minutes anyway, but I made it a point, tonight. I am so sorry that he died before he got a chance to see this machine come to be. I think if I had been him, I would have used the machine, too, but I just wish he had used the gold nano molecules (?) and seen if that had worked. If you're going to be a human guinea pig, why not go all the way? It worked in the petrie dish! Let's all hope and pray that this machine is all that they hope it is. At least for future cancer patients.
Bonnie
Dear Sheila,
I guess you would recommend buying one of these also for someone in pain then? where would we go to buy one? On the internet?
Thanks Sandy
Since I missed it last night - I watched it on the computer today and I hope The Kanzious Machine will help target tumors in the not so distant future and hope Dr. Curly will get the funding needed to take the testing further. I also missed the Discovery TV Health Channel show on Oct. 18th at 7:00 about Lung cancer - will watch that on computer next!
My mom had radiofrequency ablation at UCLA & it completey eradicated a lung tumor that was in a tough spot by an artery & closer to her heart. So if its the same thing you're discussing, it IS being done in hospitals today.
Yeppers, I caught that too that they mentioned almost all the cancers except lung. Maybe once again, it was just a over sight, he did say they were starting with the most difficult cancers.
You've got to give John Kanzius praise and our gratitute for the moxie he had.
Sheilake and suzyyyy123, do you know if theses treatments can this be done after maximum radiation and chemo? Or is it more 1st line treatment?
Barbara
Please also let me know where you can buy one as my wife has lung cancer that cannot be operated on and I would like to use this....in hope.....
'Doing OK', I believe Radiofrequency Ablation can be done After as my mother had 2 ressection surgeries, then Tarceva and then the ablation was for a third tumor... chemo came at the end of all of this... and this has been over the course of 6 years.
It wouldn't hurt to research this option.
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=rfalung#
http://www.lungcanceronline.org/treatment-experimental/rfa.html
That last link seems to have older or nonexistent articles... here's another.
http://www.scvir.org/patients/lung-cancer/
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