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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(14):985-986; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn246
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The Kanzius Machine: A New Cancer Treatment Idea From an Unexpected Source

Charles Schmidt

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Great advances rarely come from massive, federally funded directives. So said the late Francis Moore, M.D., surgeon in chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School professor, reflecting on whether the government's war on cancer might ever yield a cure. Rather, he opined, they tend to come from creative people whom no one has heard of before, working in obscurity.

Enter John Kanzius, a retired TV engineer and ham radio operator without a college education, whose use of radio waves for treating cancer has brought him to the attention of the cancer world. Featured on the program 60 Minutes last April, Kanzius is now coordinating the research of scientists at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center—from his home in Erie, Pa.

Kanzius’ contribution is a radio frequency (RF) transmitter of his own design that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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