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60 Minutes: Kanzius self-treated using RF machine

60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl

Lesley Stahl, in the third segment about the Kanzius Machine on CBS’s 60 Minutes, revealed on Sunday that in 2008, the late Erie broadcaster and inventor John Kanzius put his body into his machine and turned it on, attempting to benefit from the potential cancer-killing treatment before formal clinical trials.

Kanzius was quoted in the piece that for a period of a few months he was convinced that his use of the equipment was making a positive difference in his blood count and leukemia condition. He had used the machine without the injection of gold nano particles, an essential element in the current research.

However, research partner Dr. Stephen Curley of M.D. Anderson disputed that Kanzius would have received any positive results from the way he was using the machine. Rather, the fact that he had not been under chemotherapy for five months was probably the real reason for Kanzius’s good physical condition during those months.

Here is Lesley Stahl with her “Notebook” on the piece.


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Here is the full Kanzius Machine segment from the Sunday, Oct. 18th program.


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Lilly goes ‘all in’ to raise funds for Kanzius Foundation

When Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes came to Erie, it was a turning point.

Stahl and her production team were covering what she later described as “one of my lifetime favorite stories” on the “The Kanzius Machine,” the RF-based cancer treatment that retired Erie broadcaster John Kanzius has invented and is currently in early trials. When Ms. Stahl and Mr. Kanzius were visiting CBS-affiliate WSEE, News Director Scott Bremner introduced Kanzius to Channel 35 owner Brian Lilly.
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