I didn’t see this anywhere here on the forum but received it today as part of a site on news health articles.  According to the source with the article though, it was also part of CBS news on April 13, 2008.  I do find this idea pretty intriguing: 

KANZIUS MACHINE A cure for Cancer?

The Kanzius Machine: A Cancer Cure?

kanzius machine, cancer, cancer cure, rife, john kanzius, radiowaves, RF, nanotechnology, nanobotsJohn Kanzius, a man with no background in science or medicine, has come up with what may be one of the most promising breakthroughs in cancer research in years. What’s more, he did it with his wife’s pie pans.

Kanzius is a former businessman and radio technician who built a radio wave machine that has cancer researchers so enthusiastic about its potential that they’re pouring money and effort into testing it out.

If clinical trials pan out—and admittedly, there’s still a long way to go—the Kanzius machine will destroy cancer cells all through your body without the need for drugs or surgery ... and without any side effects.

Six years ago, Kanzius was diagnosed with terminal leukemia, and since then has undergone 36 rounds of toxic chemotherapy. He decided there had to be a better way. One night, Kanzius got out of bed, went to the kitchen, and started to build a radio wave machine out of modified pie pans. He eventually spent $200,000 building a more advanced version.

The machine sends radio waves from one box to another, creating enough energy to activate gas in a fluorescent light. Since metal heats up when it’s exposed to high-powered radio waves, if a tumor was injected with some kind of metal, it can be destroyed with a focused radio wave beam.

Doctors can inject nanoparticles made of metal directly into a tumor, and then cook the tumor to death using Kanzius’ device without harming surrounding tissue. It is hoped that, by using special molecules that are programmed to target cancer cells and attach nanoparticles to them, the machine will eventually be able to target even microscopic cells throughout the body.
Sources:

  * CBS News April 13, 2008

I saw this on the news, but more as using his engine to provide fuel for cars. They were saying it was an “accidental” side-discovery while he looked for a cancer treatment.

The way they described the cancer therapy sounded kind of similar to gamma knife to me, although I’m not well read on such matters by any means.

The main problem to using high energy waves is getting them to work on only the right location, and so far delivering metal particles with sufficient precision can, as far as I know, still be very hard. A higher precision with short burst of higher temperatures can be achieved with other techniques. Like Proton beam radiotherapy.

And just reading the text underneath the article, this guy shares my concerns about distributing nanoparticles in the human body, there is still a long way to go for widespread use of micro-machines and nanocapsules.
But paragraph three:

is it really possible to submit the human body to radio waves strong enough to heat metal particles within, without doing damage to healthy cells?

That’s what happens with MRI-scans: concentrated pulses of radio-waves are deemed safe enough on human tissue but dangerous when you have metal implants in your body (problems with MRI, paragraph six)

Hey !  It was on 60 Minutes. Therefore it must be true.  Never mind that I haven’t seen ANY independent studies.  This whole thing smells a little bit. I remember detecting the same smell when I heard about the Perpetual Motion machine on the Tonight Show. Ditto with “Cold Fusion”. Nor does the fact that Rick Santorum and Arlen Spector are involved cause me to have more confidence.
  Maybe the Kanzius Machine is a real and true miracle cure, but I have to have more independent studies to feel better.

Apparently he gave up on using it as an energy source and went back to the cancer-cure angle.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/fire_from_saltwater/