Chemotherapy is the only known cure for cancer today. It involves the use of cytotoxic drugs and is dreaded due to the numerous side effects like nausea, anemia, malnutrition, hair loss etc.jChemotherapy may just become the thing of the past based on some breakthrough research that has been made by a 63-year-old leukemia patient from Florida named John Kanzius.

Kanzius has built a device which yet does not have a name. The device is cancer cell generator based on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, has been called as ‘the manufacturing technology of the 21st century” .It is helping to economically build a broad range of complex molecular machines through which doctors can now intervene in a sophisticated and controlled way at the cellular and molecular level.

Kanzius’s method works by a patient first receiving an injection of gold nanoparticles, which would attach themselves to the cancer cells. The patient would then enter the machine and be administered a dose of radio frequency waves, which would heat the nanoparticles and surrounding cancer cells to a temperature high enough to kill the cancer cells, but would leave nearby cells untouched. The machine does not use radiation. Many scientists are using Kanzius’ machine in their research and the most challenging part yet is finding a way to target the cancerous cells with nanoparticles.
Kanzius said that he was inspired to investigate the potential of nanotechnology and radio waves after receiving 24 rounds of chemotherapy, and wishing that others–especially children–wouldn’t have to endure the same treatment.

Via:Inventorspot

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