Beaming Away Cancer with Simple Radio Waves [video]
Leukemia patient and former broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, has developed a new cancer-fighting technique that uses radio waves to destroy cancer-causing agents. He's not a doctor but scientists are thrilled with his idea and are two years away from human trials.
It sounds good, but it is nothing more than microwaving the cancer. It has to be precisely aimed at the cancer source, and as in the case of directed X-rays, it can cause serious side effects when treating cancers such as prostate cancer. It may hold promise, but it does nothing to go in an attack cancer cells only. It can harm healthy cells too. Microwaves pose almost as much risks as X-rays.
http://wcco.com/health/health_story_129211709.html
(AP) PITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
is about to begin tests to find out whether heat from radio waves can be used
to kill cancer cells without harming other cells and without negative side
effects.
Doctors already kill cancer cells by sending radiofrequency currents through a
needle inserted in the target area to raise the temperature to the point at
which the cells die, a process known as radiofrequency ablation.
What makes the new device — which was developed by someone with no medical
background — promising is that it would be noninvasive, said Dr. David
Geller, co-director of UPMC's Liver Cancer Center.
"This has the potential to be a new modality in cancer treatment,"
Geller said Monday as he demonstrated the machine to be used on lab rats.
"There's nothing like it out there."
John Kanzius, 61, a former partner at Jet Broadcasting Company Inc. in Erie,
developed the idea and is seeking patents for his prototype device. Geller
said he was impressed by Kanzius' scientific approach, despite his having no
medical training.
rest of story at the link
I think he is definitely on to something. He's quite smart.
Leukemia patient and former broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, has developed a new cancer-fighting technique that uses radio waves to destroy cancer-causing agents. He's not a doctor but scientists are thrilled with his idea and are two years away from human trials.
He also invented this:
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There is no question that the guy is smart. However, microwaving cancer is but one more tool in the arsenal. There are a number of ways to address cancer, depending on the state it is in. They even freeze cancers, and that is probably the least invasive, but the end result is the same as the microwave or directed X-rays. As a prostate cancer survivor I had to evaluate all the risks of all the procedures available 14 years ago, including freezing. I opted for doing nothing and have been cancer free for 14 years.
You have to really investigate all cancer therapies both allopathic and alternative. I have a good friend who chose directed X-rays for the same condition and he suffered difficult side effects, not because of the X-ray, but because it was not aimed properly. That's the drawback that I see to directed microwave, it has to be aimed properly or it will be no better than the X-ray. Were I to have to choose all the alternatives available today, I would choose a skilled surgeon, one with a good track record. They are the ones with the least side effects.
When you have cancer, all choices are difficult. I know, I've been there.
1. "I would choose a skilled surgeon, one with a good track record. They are the ones with the least side effects."
Huh?
2. Clinical trials are set to begin on humans in 2 years.
"1. "I would choose a skilled surgeon, one with a good track record. They are the ones with the least side effects."
Huh?"
Yes, because that has the best track record for prostate cancer over any other treatment. I have investigated all options through the national cancer hot line and had more up to date and better information than my surgeon. If you can find something better for prostate cancer, let me know.
"2. Clinical trials are set to begin on humans in 2 years."
So what makes it better than other treatments? It is simply cooking the cancer and whoever is operating the device has to have perfect aim. That has not always. been the case with other directed devices.
1. This is not a mainstream medical site. We don't cotton to words like national cancer hotline, which I assume is ran by the American Cancer Society? And, I am sure there are many alternatives to surgery, Alivizatos, for one. But, there are others. Some people cannot even have surgery for cancer because it is metastasized or too hard to get too.
2. How would we know anything about the aim, or much about it at all for that matter, when human trials have not even began yet? I am sure their "aim" will be fine when they finally get to humans. And, I really hope they do, because normally the government suppresses cancer cures and treatments. This one seems to have slipped through the cracks, so far.
Original question:
So what makes it better than other treatments? It is simply cooking the cancer and whoever is operating the device has to have perfect aim. That has not always. been the case with other directed devices.
Your response:
1. This is not a mainstream medical site. We don't cotton to words like national cancer hotline, which I assume is ran by the American Cancer Society? And, I am sure there are many alternatives to surgery, Alivizatos, for one. But, there are others. Some people cannot even have surgery for cancer because it is metastasized or too hard to get too.
2. How would we know anything about the aim, or much about it at all for that matter, when human trials have not even began yet? I am sure their "aim" will be fine when they finally get to humans. And, I really hope they do, because normally the government suppresses cancer cures and treatments. This one seems to have slipped through the cracks, so far.
You didn't address the question at all which to me means you don't know much about it. I know this isn't a mainstream medical site, but it is a support site for people with cancer. Anyone who has cancer (and I have had it) who doesn't get every bit of information they can from someone like the American Cancer Society is downright foolish. That's the number one problem with the majority of people seeking medical attention from all sources, learning everything they can about their condition and learning all they can about allopathic medicine and alternative medicine as it applies to that specific condition.
I'll go back to your original post. You are simply presenting a method to cook the cancer. It has to be correctly aimed at the cancer to be effective and to not do more harm than good. There are already at least two methodologies that do that: 1) Directed X-rays and 2) Directed freezing, both of which are highly dependant on the skill of the doctor and both of them have caused significant problems as will the microwaves when and if it passes its tests. It is not, as you have assumed, a new cure all. It too will be administered by medical doctors and if accepted, added to the list of alternatives that the American Cancer Society will support. It will be a new tool in the allopathic medicine kit and will become a part of the "mainstream medical" field which you obviously abhor.
I agree that anyone with cancer should try to learn as much as they can about it. Unfortunately, if they seek this knowledge only from mainstream sources, and ESPECIALLY from the American Cancer Society, they stand a very good chance of not finding the information that might save their lives.
I find the ACS information to be woefully lacking, one-sided and deliberately misleading. Not surprising coming from the worlds wealthiest non-profit organization whose very existence depends on NOT finding a cure for cancer and whose board members have so many obvious conflicts of interest.
Cancer is an extremely high profit $300 billion dollar industry whose only market place is our bodies and whose continued profits and existence depends on maintaining the status quo. Doctor and pharma companies are not the only ones whose existence depends on keeping cancer thriving.
That is a very outrageous and sad statement. But a true one nevertheless.
DQ
1. no, some mainstream medicine is ok. it has it's good and bad. if i break my leg, for example, i would go across the street tothe hospital and have them fix it.
2. "You didn't address the question at all which to me means you don't know much about it."
I was posting a news story.
Regardless of how they dress it up, it is still killing cancer cells with radiation. And microwave radiation at that. How many times have we heard that a new cancer therapy is safe? Reminds me of the targeted radiation pellets that they place next to cancer and how that was supposed to be safe and non-invasive. Turned out to be still dangerous and still largely ineffective and failed to address the underlying cause of the cancer - in other words yet another backwords mainstream therapy that treated the symptom and failed to address the underlying causes.
I will pass and stick with nature.
DQ
"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow." - Dr. ALEXIS CARROL. (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefellar Institute.)
I agree with the main content of your post. As I've indicated in other posts on this thread, it is just one more tool in the medical bag. As far as sticking with nature, if you've come to that bridge already and have made that decision, than I'll support your position. If however, you have yet to face that hurdle, you may make a different choice at that time. Talking about cancer and what you would do about it if you were diagnosed with it is completely different than having cancer and being faced with all the options. I know that one very well. It's like enjoying flying and having things go well all the time until there is a problem like a major fire in the air and having to choose between staying with the airplane or leaving it when leaving it looks like certain death. I've faced that one too and I'm still here.
There are loads of things we can discuss, but nobody knows how they will react until they face the situation themselves. Regarding cancer, I try to be supportive of the individuals own choices and try to inform them of all options, including those alternatives that I consider to be good ones.
I respectfully disagree - at least to when it comes to me.
When I first began my research into natural health I believed that real medicine was what came in the bottles you got from a doctors prescriptions and, while having respect for oriental medicine, native american remedies and other homeopathic and natural alternatives, I thought that by and large those options were less effective and best and snake oil at worst.
Was I ever wrong!
Today I can abolutely say that, knowing what I do now, there is no way I would ever submit to any form of mainstream treatment for cancer no matter how many oncologists assured me that I would die without it - with the sole exception that I might consider sugery to remove a fast growing tumor to buy time for nature to beat the cancer and address the underlying causes.
If you think that making such a choice for yourself is tough, you should face making such a recommendation for a close relative you love dearly. I have done so twice. And I feel pretty much the same whenever I tell that to anyone.
It has been estimated that mainstream medicine, with it's tremendous technology, resources and profits, has at best a 3% overall cure rate (and they define a cure as merely 5 year survival). So far I have only what I have learned and my heart to guide me, and make almost no money, but I am batting about 1000. And no amount of money could buy the joy and satisfaction that brings.
In the end, the measure of a person's life is not the good they accumulate, but rather the cumulative good they contribute. I am no saint, and many times I have muddied the waters that lie alongside the sands of life I walk. I am just trying to put down some positive footsteps during the rest of the journey.
Live long, live healthy, live happy!
DQ
It has been estimated that mainstream medicine, with it's tremendous technology, resources and profits, has at best a 3% overall cure rate (and they define a cure as merely 5 year survival). So far I have only what I have learned and my heart to guide me, and make almost no money, but I am batting about 1000. And no amount of money could buy the joy and satisfaction that brings.
Yes, bottom line is you have to live with yourself. But your statistics are very skewed. Below is a table for survival rates from 1973 to 1998. You will note that even the lowest survivor rate at 5 years is pancreatic cancer, and it is higher than the number you quote. The majority of survival rates at 5 years listed below exceed 50% - many over 80%. Survival is much, much, better than what many on this forum attribute to allopathic medicine, and today the survival years have improved over and above the 1973 to 1998 numbers.
Any choice a person makes is their own, and one has to respect their choice regardless of the outcome.
from: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Jr&topic_id=1&topic=Ask+E.T.
Source: Hermann Brenner, "Long-term survival rates of cancer patients
achieved by the end of the 20th century:
a period analysis," The Lancet, 360 (October 12, 2002), 1131-1135.
I should have been more specific in saying that chemo and radiation achieve at best a 3% increase in length of survival and true cures from cancer (meaning that the patient becomes completely cancer free and the cancer never returns). The fact is that for those who are diagnosed with cancer, after the third year the survival rate for those who had no treatment at all increases steadily and for those who had mainstream treatment it decreases steadily.
Sources: Dr. Ralph Moss and Webster Kehr, the "Cancer Tutor"
What the chart in the above post fails to address is the actual success rates for mainstream medicine as well as relect some of the ways that statistics for cure rates (defined by mainsteam medicine as merely surviving for five years) by mainstream medicine are grossly overstated. Here are six ways that mainstream medicine skews cure rates:
1. By re-defining "cure" as "alive five years after diagnosis: instead of using the word's real meaning, which is "cancer-free". Thus a patient could still have cancer the entire five years and die one day after the 5th anniversary date of diagnosis and still be recorded as a cure.
2. By simply omitting certain groups of people, such as African Americans, or by omitting certain types of cancer, such as all lung cancers patients, from their statistical calculations.
3. By including types of cancer that are not life-threatening and are easily curable, such as skin cancers and DCIS.
(In the chart in the above post, many of those who die, even after almost 20 years, still die of cancer. Also, the statistics include many such easily curable cancers, such as localized cancers of the cervix, non-spreading cancers and melanomas, as well as "cancers" that many feel are not true cancers at all, merely pre-cances. For example, DCIS is a pre-cancerous condition that is 99% curable and makes up 30% of all breast cancers. Deduct that 30% and the figures are much less impressive.)
4. By allowing earlier detection to erroneously imply longer survival.
5. By deleting patients from cance treatment studies who die too soon, even if that is on the 89th day of a 90 day chemotherabpy protocol.
6. By using a questionable adjustment called "relative survival rate" where they get to deduct a certain number of cancer victims who statistics say would have died during the five years of other causes such as heart attacks, car wrecks, etc.
Source: Tanya Harter Pierce "Outsmart Your Cancer"
These outrageous "fudges", as Ms. Harter too kindly calls them, have all been incorporated into cancer cure statistics to hide the fact that the war on cancer has been hopelessly lost and wrongly waged. In the opinion of many who are far more knowledgeable and qualified than I am, the so-called War on Cancer is little more than a hoax.
"Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them." - Linus Pauling PhD (Two-time Nobel Prize winner).
"The National Anti-Cancer Program is a bunch of sh*t."
- James Watson, Nobel Laureate for Medicine in 1962 , joint discoverer of the double helix of DNA, and for two years a member of the US Joint Advisory Committee on Cancer
When it comes to mainstream successes, of the three major mainstream treatment methods, surgery is the only one with respectable success rates and even then it is only successful the vast majority of the time in those who have operable types of cancer that has not yet metastisized at the time of diagnosis - and most cancers are not detected prior to metastisizing.
When it comes to Chemo, in the words of Dr. Ralph Moss:
"Chemo has some success in a few kinds of cancer, but in the conventional cancers which chemotherapy sometimes "works" such as small-cell lung cancers, the actual survival benefit is reckoned in weeks or months, not in years. And during this time, the patient is likely to experience major, even life threatening, side effects from the treatment, so the overall advantage to the patient is moot."
Radiation results are even more dismal. In some studies, patients who opted for radiation have had lower survival rates than those who did not have radiation.
Sources: Tanya Harter Pierce, Dr. Rath Foundation
Another common deception of mainstream medicine is to quote "response rates", which is defined as having a 50% tumor shrinkage for a period of twelve months. It has nothing to do with cure rates or long term survival, but it is the statistic that is often quoted to patient by their oncologists.
Yet another common deception is the use of "remission" to imply cure, when it is nothing of the sort. As Webster Kehr writes in "The War Between Orthodox Medicine and Alternative Medicine"
First of all, the National Cancer Institute defines "remission" as:
What exactly does this definition mean relative to the three "treatment decision criteria" . . . You, the citizen, are supposed to assume that "remission" means a person is cured of their cancer. But that is not what the definition states. It states there is an absence of "signs and symptoms." So is there a correlation between the absence of "signs and symptoms" and the three treatment decision criteria above?
Generally, the determination of remission is based on a reduction in the size of the tumor or in the change of some tumor marker. These things may indicate the number of cancer cells in the body, but they are very, very crude estimates of the number of cancer cells in the body. These numbers also do not measure the pain and suffering of the patient (i.e. the quality of life) or the status of the immunity system, which is very, very important if all of the cancer cells have not been killed.
The bottom line for me is that more people continue to be diagnosed with cancer each year, more continue to die, and, despite much propaganda to the contrary, the survival rates for many of the most dangerous and common cancers remains virtually unchanged - as even your chart displays (lung, pancreas, liver, brain, leukemia, non-Hodgkins, stomach, ovary, colon, kidney, rectum and, when the recently included DCIS non-cancers are removed, breast cancer).
Time and again, alternative therapies have proven to have better success in long term survival and much better success in actually eliminating cancer which does not return. When it comes to actually preventing cancer, there is no comparison between mainstream medicine and alternative therapies including diet, nutrition and lifestyle (which are still largely ignored by mainstream medicine).
My research and my writing sare as much, if not more, about natural methods of preventing cancer as about remedies for cancer, but in either case, I will take what nature has to offer hands down.
DQ
"Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can create, and healing is re-creation."
- Dr. Willaim S. Sadler
"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow."
- Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefellar Institute)
My ex-bf battled cancer 10 years. He even wrote those very words in his last email to me. So, I guess according to mainstream doctors (which was all he ever trusted and went to) he was cured. He died a few months ago, though.
Well, if it is radiation just like they have, there would be no reason to pursue it. So, it must be different? Yes, I know that they don't address the cause ever, mainstream hasn't ever thought they should do that. That would be my first question...how do you think I got this and how do I keep from getting it back.
This machine is just as harmful as the microwave oven many have in the kitchen. In no way is it a cure. There is already in existence a machine that does indeed cure cancer by using the right frequency. If there was no ulterior motive, this machine would not have been banned from mainstream medicine.
This is just another machine that works like chemotherapy. Fry the cancer and fry the healthy cells along with it. When mainstream medicine announces that they have discovered a new cancer cure, I tend to disbelieve it. It is more likely a machine that will take more of the unsuspecting patient's money.
Luella