Kanzius Machine Uses Radio Waves to Kill Cancer Cells
Here’s a story from 60 Minutes about a device known as the Kanzius Machine that uses radio waves to destroy cancer cells.
Developed by retired broadcaster and leukemia patient John Kanzius, the Kanzius Machine works by using a noninvasive radio wave generator to warm nanoparticles within cancer cells. This heating process is designed to kill the cancer cells while creating little or no damage to nearby healthy cells.
Though still years away from human trials, the Kanzius Machine has shown promise in pre-clinical experiments conducted by the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Rice University and TherMed LLC. Results of these tests demonstrated the Kanzius Machine destroyed liver cancer tumors in rabbits with no apparent side effects.
According to the study’s senior author,
These are promising, even exciting, preclinical results in this liver cancer model. Our next step is to look at ways to more precisely target the nanotubes so they attach to, and are taken up by, cancer cells while avoiding normal tissue.
Steven Curley, M.D.
M. D. Anderson Department of Surgical Oncology
You can find more information about the Kanzius Machine at the John Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. Results of the study were published in the December 15, 2007 issues of the journal Cancer.
Source: 60 Minutes
Related stories: Health News Review; Wired.
Related links: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; American Association of Cancer Research; Alliance for NanoHealth; National Science Foundation; Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
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