ERIE, Pa. — When doctors told John Kanzius he had nine months to live, he quietly thanked God for his blessings and prepared to die. Then 58, he had lived a good life. Now he had leukemia and was ready to accept his fate, but the visits to the cancer ward shook him. Faces haunted him - the bald and bandaged heads, bodies slumped in wheelchairs, and children who could not play. Like him, they had endured chemo, which caused their weight to plummet, hands to shake, bodies to weaken and immune systems to break down. Kanzius thought there had to be a more humane way to treat cancer. Kanzius did not have a medical background, but he knew radios. He had built and fixed them since he was a child, knew how to send radio-wave signals around the world. If he could transmit them into cancer cells, he wondered, could he then direct the radio waves to destroy tumors, while leaving healthy cells intact? Awake one early morning in 2003, Kanzius grabbed some copper wires, boxes, antennas and his wife’s pie pans, and began building a machine. Sending radio waves He knew […]