Meet John Kanzius

John is the CEO and Manager of Therm Med, LLC, and has spent his entire career in broadcast engineering, management and ownership. John began his career working in the high power AM/FM/Television Engineering Department of Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in Meadowlands, Pennsylvania. While working for RCA in the early 1960’s, John gained notoriety in the engineering community by solving with a fifty-cent part an engineering phenomenon regarding high powered color television transmission distortion which had vexed a team of electrical engineers, Ph.D’s and professors for several years.

In the mid-1960’s, John left RCA and began several decades in management and ownership of broadcast properties, including WJET-TV, JET-102 FM, and WFGO-FM, all in Erie, Pennsylvania; WHOT-AM/FM in Youngstown, Ohio; WWOW-AM in Conneaut, Ohio; and KRRT-TV in San Antonio, Texas. For several years, WJET-TV was recognized by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for having the highest local ratings of any affiliate in the United States. Through three decades of station ownership and management, John made continuous improvement to the technological capabilities of those properties, always keeping them on the cutting edge of broadcast engineering. John’s innovative spirit is demonstrated by WJET-TV’s early adoption of satellite transmission technology, with WJET making the second live broadcast from China after the United States resumed diplomatic relations with that country, and by WJET bringing live coverage of Pope John Paul II’s first visit to his native Poland following his election to the Papacy.

During 1998 to 2000, John and his partner sold the ownership of their remaining several broadcast properties and John retired. His retirement was interrupted in early 2002, however, by a diagnosis of cancer which, in time, would be identified as a rare form of B-cell leukemia. By 2004, John was drawing on his years of experience and knowledge of broadcast and electrical engineering to envision a better way to treat cancer using physics and the use of non-invasive radio frequency waves. Through his position as Manager of Therm Med, LLC, John has devoted his full-time efforts to supporting and advancing the research on this new treatment modality. Those efforts have been supported by The University of Pittsburgh, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and the late Richard Smalley, a Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize for his work with carbon nanoparticles.

John’s educational background includes study of electronics and electrical engineering at the Allegheny Technical Institute and the University of Pittsburgh. John is named as an inventor on over two dozen patent applications currently on file in the United States.  Additionally he has already received four international patents for his targeted radio wave procedure using nanoparticles. 

Married to his wife Marianne for forty-two years, they have two children Sherry Kanzius and Toni Palmer and make their home in Erie, Pennsylvania and Sanibel, Florida.

Contact the John Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation