Submitted by The Stupid Cancer Blog

Pennsylvania Patient Builds Machine Harnessing Radio Waves To Attack CellsFor most, a cancer diagnosis can be devastating. But, as CBS News contributor Benno Schmidt reported on The Early Show Monday, for John Kanzius, it was a call to action. Kanzius isn’t a doctor. He doesn’t even have a college degree. Yet, observes Schmidt, the device he invented has impressed a notable researcher and inspired his hometown, Erie, Pa., to the point where it gave him a key to the city in April. Asked by Schmidt what made him think he could cure cancer, Kanzius replied with a laugh, “What made me think I couldn’t cure cancer? Nobody else was doing it!” A former radio and TV engineer and one-time station owner, Kanzius, who suffers from leukemia, hated his chemotherapy and saw its devastating effect on others. “I ran into some of the same patients over and over again and, to see their smiles disappear within a few weeks, and then watch their hair disappear and then, clinging to their mothers asking, ‘What’s wrong with me?’ was heartbreaking.”

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