'60 Minutes': John Kanzius Video
'60 Minutes': John Kanzius Video Transcript
>> The last thing John Kansas [assumed spelling] thought he would ever do was try to cure cancer. A former radio and television executive from Pennsylvania, he came here to Florida to enjoy his retirement.
>> John: I have no business being in the cancer business, it's not something that a layman like me should be in it should be left to doctors and research people.
>> But sometimes it takes an outsider.
>> John: Sometimes it just -- maybe you get lucky.
>> It was the worst kind of luck that gave Kansas the idea to use radio waves to kill cancer cells.
>> Have you noticed any lymph nodes?
>> 6 years ago he was diagnosed with terminal Leukemia and since then he has undergone 36 rounds of toxic chemotherapy, but it wasn't his own condition that motivated him it was looking into the hollow eyes of sick children on the Cancer Ward at MD Anderson in Houston.
>> John: I saw the smiles of youth and saw their spirits were broken and you could see that they were sort of asking, why can't they do something for me?
>> So they started to haunt you, the children?
>> John: Their faces, I still remember them holding on to their teddy bears and so forth and shortly after that I started my own chemotherapy, my third round of chemotherapy.
>> Did it really make you terribly sick?
>> John: Very sick and I couldn't sleep at night. I said, "There's gotta be a better way to treat cancer." ^M00:01:25 [ Sound effect ]
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