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John Kanzius, 61, a former partner at Jet Broadcasting Company Inc., uses a flourescent tube to demonstrate his prototype radio wave cancer treatment machine at The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, May 9, 2005. Tests are about to begin on animals.
John Kanzius
Man with no medical background invents a device that kills cancer cells.
ERIE, Pa. - John Kanzius, who had no medical background but invented a device that kills cancer cells, died Wednesday. He was 64.
Kanzius died at a hospital in Florida, where he had a winter home. Jack Martin, of Dusckas Martin Funeral Home in Erie, confirmed the death but had no further details.
Kanzius used to be a partner at Erie's Jet Broadcasting Co. He invented a device that uses heat from radio waves to kill cancer cells without harming other cells.
He created the device while suffering from insomnia brought on by chemotherapy.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are experimenting with it.
1944 - February 18, 2009
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