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On 60 Minutes | 10/15/2009 6:45 pm

On '60 Minutes': A New Weapon in the Fight Against Cancer?

Lesley Stahl

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.

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Also on "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper’s profile of Drew Barrymore and a story on swine flu. 

"60 Minutes" airs on CBS Sunday at 7 PM ET/PT

 

10 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Norma Grooms

Sounds like "60 Minutes" is going to be very interesting this week.  I’ll be watching.

By Norma Grooms on 10/15/2009 6:29 pm
Patty E
Interesting that metal in the body can kill us—-and save us by killing cancer cells, too! hmmm
By Patty E on 10/15/2009 6:45 pm
Lila Kuh

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.

By Lila Kuh on 10/15/2009 6:51 pm
Chris Glass`
I decided the same thing when my mother died of lung cancer. There was no quality of life with chemo and radiation just fatigue and pain. If diagnosed I will go out experience as much as I can before my final exit.
By Chris Glass` on 10/16/2009 7:15 am
rocky rocky
I’ll watch. I want to know how they get the metal out of the body once it’s in. 
By rocky rocky on 10/15/2009 7:02 pm
Amy Stewart Hale

Me too…and when he needs an MRI and they miss some…that’d beya problem.

Amy, PennDragon Studios

PennDragonStudios.com

By Amy Stewart Hale on 10/15/2009 7:46 pm
Beth Cornell
That sounds interesting. I will watch.
By Beth Cornell on 10/15/2009 7:44 pm
C jay

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.

 

By C jay on 10/15/2009 8:05 pm
Chris Glass`
I read about this in our local paper several months ago. I hope that it works.
By Chris Glass` on 10/16/2009 7:12 am
Linda Myers
My uncle was diagnosed two years ago June, with terminal lung cancer and sent home to get his affairs in order, no treatment available. The only hope he had was developing a belief in holitstic approaches. He is still alive today, still fighting without treatment outside of pain medication at times. I knew how to do the energy work, but he set himself on a mission to find alternatives also in the fight, one was ionized water which has became the only water used in their home another was a machine that he found, but could not afford so he called the developer and made an agreement if the machine could be sent he would help promote it in the area where he lived, which he has done. Not bad for a 78 year old marketing genius. His fight has been aternative in many forms, not to mention allowing himself to become a resource for others in his area that are also fighting. He is my cancer hero!
By Linda Myers on 10/20/2009 2:00 pm