http://www.nbc4.com/health/11125917/detail.html
OK, so it's not MY cure for cancer. But a leukemia patient with a background in Physics and Radio Broadcasting invented a device to help combat cancer, and it's very interesting. The idea is that it turns cancer cells into antennae that attract ordinarily harmless particles that can be easily heated by radio waves (more easily than the rest of your body). Then, once these particles are disproportionately attached to the cancer cells, you flood the body with radio waves in a non-invasive procedure. The cancerous growths then go through something like a self-destructing meltdown.
This innovative concept is being tested by researchers, and hopefully something will come of it. I'd love to buy stock in the company that starts building whatever comes out of the research, though I think it'd be even better if the inventor insisted that a non-profit take control and try to make it as widely available as possible as fast as possible. Heartwarmingly, the motivation for his invention was seeing kids go into chemotherapy with smiles and come back a few weeks later without them.
[Editor's Addendum: Read the comments. The one left by Max Power provides some context for this type of research. And I can assure you he's quite qualified to comment.]
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The radio frequency part device is the least complicated issue. Once a nano/micro particle has targeted the cells in questions there are many ways to induce cell death. The problem with the device comes in at the physical targeting. There are so many research projects whose sole purpose is to figure out how to target cancerous cells. Cancer types are very different when you go down to the molecular level that it is near impossible to actually find a "cure". The most effective way to target specific cancers is to figure out a protein that is being over-expressed on the surface of the cell. The creation of the actual particles is and issue that is currently being fine tuned in labs. It is not easy, I spent nearly 1.5 years working on various types of particles. The field shows quite a bit of promise but many issues still have to be tackled before anything can come close to resembling a "cure."
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