Someone will turn this true story into a blockbuster movie:

Using his wife’s kitchen pots and pans Mr Kanzius, 63, built a machine to direct radio waves at tumours, heating and killing them without damaging the surrounding tissue - something that opens up the possibility of cancer treatment with few or no side effects.

Now two teams of American cancer researchers have just shown that a refined version of Mr Kanzius’s machine can kill static tumours in mice and rabbits and they are working to find a way to hunt down cancers that spread through the body. They believe human trials could start within four years.

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