After a career as a broadcast manager and engineer, Kanzius decided to retire. Two years into his retirement, in 2002, he was diagnosed with what was then considered to be a rare B-cell leukemia. Immediately, Kanzius began using his electrical engineering background to develop a non-invasive cancer treatment method that involved radio frequency waves. Now serving as Manager at Therm Med, LLC Kanzius was able to spend all of his time working on his new form of cancer treatment. His efforts were sustained by the late Richard Smalley, Nobel Laureate who received the Nobel Prize for his work with carbon nanoparticles, as well as the University of Pittsburgh and the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The foundation has entered Kanzius’ Radio Wave Cancer Treatment in the Pepsi Refresh Everything Project, which will grant $250,000 to the idea that receives the most votes. Right now, the treatment is ranked #7.
According to the Pepsi Refresh Everything Project website, the money would be used to contract a molecular biologist and physicist to work on nanoparticle research and cancer cell targeting studies, and the remaining money would go towards the “execution of global communications plan.” The two aforementioned experts would support clinical trials of the Kanzius Radio Wave Cancer Treatment, and it is the hope of Kanzius’ foundation that Phase I trials would begin by 2012.
The treatment would be most effective for patients with breast, prostate, lung, colon, liver, pancreatic and leukemic cancers. The treatment itself is non-invasive, and kills one hundred percent of cancer cells without harming “good” tissue and cells.
If the treatment is approved, it may one day be an option for patients suffering from mesothelioma, a fatal form of cancer that typically manifest in the cavity of the lungs. Palliative treatment methods such as chemo, radiation and surgery are only temporary measures for mesothelioma patients, and despite receiving these treatments most mesothelioma sufferers die within two years of diagnosis.
People can vote for the Kanzius Radio Wave Cancer Treatment daily through the end of April.
More information about the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) organization that provides funding for the late John Kanzius’ cancer treatment solution, can be found on their website, kanziuscancerresearch.com.
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