Originally airing on April 13, this 60 Minutes piece, entitled “The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?,” focuses on an experimental cancer-treating machine invented by a former business man with no medical or cancer research training. John Kanzius, diagnosed with leukemia himself, developed a prototype that uses radio waves and activated nanoparticles to kill cancer cells.
The animation demonstrates how gold nanoparticles circulated throughout the body can specifically target cancerous tissue.
The treatment has been shown by Kanzius and others to destroy cancerous cells while sparing healthy surrounding tissue, and with virtually no side effects.
