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PRESORTED MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT #18 • • • •» SANIBEL, FL Postal Patron •*>: VOL 13, NO. 7 SANIBEL & CAPTIVA ISLANDS, FLORIDA AUGUST 19, 2005 AUGUST SUNRISE/SUNSET: 19 07:03 20:00 20 07:03 19:59 21 07:03 19:58 22 07:04 19:57 23 07:04 19:56 24 07:05 19:55 25 07:05 19:54 Marine Lab To (Part of a series) Study Historic Scientists Water Release Optimistic by Brian Johnson On Cancer tephen Bortone was sitting in his Treatment office on the morning of August S12 when he got the phone call he by Jim George wanted: the Water Management District he saga of Sanibel island resident gave him the green light to go ahead John Kanzius' theory on the treat- with a project to study the impact of ment of cancer tumors continues a massive water release that may take T to generate strong possibilities that the place beginning in the fall of 2005. theory might work. Targeting cancer Bortone, the director of the Sanibel- cells using a proprietary technology Captiva Conservation Foundation's and then destroying those cells without Marine Lab, is excited about the prospect harming healthy cells has been a dream of using cutting edge technology to mea- of the medical community. Kanzius sure what certainly will be a historic eco- has come up with just such a technol- logical event in the State of Florida. Two ogy using radio waves to heat the cells of the high-tech instruments may cost as after targeting them with a method that much as $14,000 each to purchase. The Kanzius has developed and for which he Water Management District is funding the has filed patents. study. continued on page 2 continued on page 2 Bowditch Point Sanibel Employee Dependent Scholarships Awarded u Elizabeth Sitton, Kirk Williams, Cindy and Will Sitton (i to r) Mayor Carlo Johnston, Tom Uhler; Krbiina Williams and her mother, Judith Ear'e, David Gleeson and his mother, Terri Cummins; Karen Gudella and her daughter, Abby Gilligan's Island Party hree students were awarded $1,000 scholarships through the City of Sanibel by Brian Johnson Employee Dependent Scholarship Fund. arishoners and guests gathered at the T Abby Gudella of Fort Myers, David Gleeson of Sanibel and Kristina Williams Sanibel Community Church on the one- of Fort Myers are the first to receive a scholarship from the endowed fund established year anniversary of Hurricane Charley to at the Community Foundation of Sanibel-Captiva. P Abby is the daughter of Recreation Department employee, Karen Gudella; David is celebrate the successful return to island life. The church threw a Gilligan's Island theme the son of Planning Department employee, Terri Cummins; and Kristina is the daugh- party to remember August 13 of 2004. Many ter of Recreation Department employee, Judith Earle. continued on page 6 continued on page 11 Tabatha Nave and Ellie Kelly IMHMM«««tMIIMttt_<*i«t»ftn*<MH<ttt *.l f » H i • n • I M » ^Vn From page 1 Curley said, "We should be able to get training, but developed the idea for the to survive." them {buckytubes) into cells in places that treatment as a result of his own bout with The instrument the lab is purchasing Scientists Optimistic you just can't.get other molecules." The a rare form of non-Hodgkin's iymphoma is called a Radial Spectrophotometer. Just last week, the University of MD Anderson Center in Houston will cancer and his empathy for other cancer This dejice measures very fine points of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMQ con- begin its own round of animal tests in victims who were ravaged by the side light. It not only captures the light coming ducted tests showing that radio waves September using the Kanzius technology. effects of radiation and chemotherapy. from the sun above the water, but all the can quickly heat miniscule carbon-based Researchers at MD Anderson are part- The quiet, soft-spoken Kanzius, retired refracted light boucing off #ie sand and tubes that researchers believe can be nering on the investigation of Kanzius' owner of several TV and radio stations, is coming from different directions. It runs attached to cancer cells. This kind of test technology with a group led by Richard now spending his retirement sheparding 24 hours per day. z: had never been done before. The tubes, Smalley of Rice University. Smalley, a his invention through the long process of "The water from a release is dark CO known as "buckytubes," can destroy Nobel Prize-winning chemist and, a can- trials and testing.^ and filters out light," said Bortone. "We Q attached cancer cells without harming cer patient himself, developed the carbon- will use this instrument to measure how the healthy cells, the researchers believe. based buckytubes. The tubes are known seagrass responds to the reduction of Present methods of treating cancer with for their ability to conduct electricity, as From page 1 light waves. Once we have a collection potent chemicals with debilitating side well as for their strength and extraordi- of data, the instrument may function in effects or the use of invasive surgery in narily small size. Marine Lab the future as an early warning signal for a tough tumors in areas such as the brain Rice and MD Anderson are part of the The Army Corps of Engineers is plan- plant's condition." can be as dangerous to the patient as the Alliance for NanoHealth - a collaborative ning to release copious amounts of water The marine lab also will use equipment disease itself. If the technology proves effort involving six universities working to from Lake Okeechobee from around owned by Florida Gulf Coast University out, scientists believe that Kanzius' treat- bridge the gaps between medicine, biol- October to the following summer. Their (FGCU). Lab research scientist, Dr. Eric ment could be effective in hard-to-treat ogy, public policy and nanotechnology. goal is to bring the water level in the lake Milbrandt, has been working at FGCU a areas such as the liver, lung, prostate, kid- In a telephone interview from his Erie, down from about 17 feet to 12 feet, said couple days per week, and has a devel- ney, thyroid, brain and adrenal glands. PennsX/lvania, home, Kanzius expressed Bortone. oped a collaborative relationship arid a Kanzius, 61, is picking up some pow- optimism in results of. the testing so far. "Whether we like it or not, it's going growing expertise with the insfrarnehts erful allies. Senators Rick Santorum and "I just simply cannot believe that so many to be a huge, continuous blast of water," at the University. He and Bortone will be Arlen Specter from Kanzius' home state highly qualified scientists are seeing the he said. "We want to investigate the working with Dr. Randy Alberts, the direc- of Pennsylvania already have pushed merit cf .my technology. In my wildest impact of this type of release on the tor of FGCU's Biotechnology Department. $500,000 of government money into the dreams, I would have nev$r expected this." marine environment." Milbrandt will be using a device that project and have indicated that there is Indeed, when Kanzius first suggested The result of such a large-scale dump- will furnish the lab with a chemical analy- more to come. the possibilities of the radio wave theory, ing of freshwater into the ecosystem may sis of the water released and allow them Several other high-poweredcancer its sheer simplicity defied logic that it had have a short-term catastrophic effect to track the water as it travels to the research centers have signed on to the not been thought of before. Although radio on certain species of marine plants and Gulf of Mexico. "The chemicals leave project. Dr. Steven A.Curiey, a profes- waves already are in use today, it is inva- animals. Bortone does hot expect any an environmental footprint that will help sor of surgical oncology at the University sive because a probe must be inserted, and serious long-term problems, but certainly us follow a drop of water from the lake of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center there is collateral damage to surrounding research scientists want to document the through the estuary," said Bortone. and one of the nations leading can- tissue. 3he key to the Kanzius technology results of the release. The lab is gearing up for the challenge cer researchers, has indicated that the is, it is non invasive, it targets the cancer "The winter time is their haven, and of monitoring and analyzing such a major UPMC tests open up a "huge number of cells and avoids damags to healthy cells. now they won't have that," said Bortone. event, and pleased to continue their part- research opportunities." 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