On 60 Minutes | 10/15/2009 6:45 pm
On '60 Minutes': A New Weapon in the Fight Against Cancer?
In January of 2008, John was finishing his 36th round of chemo since being diagnosed with leukemia. But the chemo was just barely keeping him alive and the relentlessness of the leukemia was getting him. He didn’t think it was possible for a person to feel as badly as he did and, yet, still be alive. And then he had an idea: a radio wave machine. He knew that the radio waves would heat up metal, so he wondered if, by injecting his cancer cells with some kind of metal, he could "cook" the cancer cells to death. Kanzius’s ideas were so intriguing that he caught the attention of top doctors, who are now working to bring the treatment to human clinical trials.
Also on "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper’s profile of Drew Barrymore and a story on swine flu.
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Sounds like "60 Minutes" is going to be very interesting this week. I’ll be watching.
Good for John Kanzius. I hope his idea matures into a good alternative treatment.
After witnessing the deaths of two relatives this year from cancer, I had already resolved that I will NOT pursue chemo if I ever get a diagnosis such as they had (in their cases, there was not much hope, but they tried the chemo anyway… no luck, but much misery). Better to just drift off on an ice floe or something similar.
Me too…and when he needs an MRI and they miss some…that’d beya problem.
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Many people were going to Germany in the late 1990s for their hyperthermal cancer therapy, and radio waves was another option. I remember friends wanting me to go there but I told them to send my oncologist, because once he found that those treatments worked, he’d be a US millionaire overnight. I needed to cure, and heal.