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Killing cancer with a radio |
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 When doctors told John Kanzius he had nine months to live, he quietly thanked God for his blessings and prepared to die.
Then 58, he had lived a good life, with a loving wife, two successful adult daughters and a gratifying career.
Now he had leukemia and was ready to accept his fate, but the visits to
the cancer ward shook him. Faces haunted him, the bald and bandaged
heads, bodies slumped in wheelchairs, and children who could not play.
Like him, they had endured chemotherapy treatments that caused their
weight to plummet, hands to shake, bodies to weaken, and immune systems
to break down to the point that the slightest germ could be deadly.
Kanzius knew their agony. He believed if cancer didn't kill him first,
the treatments surely would.
He thought there had to be a more humane way to treat cancer.
Kanzius did not have a medical background, not even a bachelor's
degree, but he knew radios. He had built and fixed them since he was a
child, collecting transmitters, transceivers, antennas and amplifiers,
earning an amateur radio operator license. Kanzius knew how to send
radio wave signals around the world. If he could transmit them into
cancer cells, he wondered, could he then direct the radio waves to
destroy tumors, while leaving healthy cells intact?
Awake in bed one night in 2003, as the clock ticked past 2, Kanzius
pulled himself from beneath the covers, leaving his sleeping wife,
Marianne. He staggered down a flight of stairs, grabbed some copper
wires, boxes, antennas and Marianne's pie pans, and began building a
machine.
For months, Kanzius tinkered, using the pie pans to create an
electronic circuit, often waking Marianne with his clanging. By day, he
sent her out with supply lists: mineral mixtures, metals, wires.
His early-morning experiments would lead him to one of the nation's top
cancer researcher centers, and earn the support of a Nobel Prize winner.
When it came to electronics, Marianne had always known her husband was
gifted. But still she worried: Was he going mad? "My God, honey," she
thought, "none of the doctors can fix this. How can you?"
Full article in LA Times
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