“I was doing fine working for my family’s company ITAMCO for about 12 years,” Neidig told the crowd. “Then I went to Africa to visit missionary workers there and it changed my life. While I’m not in the mission field I still have a heart that is sensitive to the needs of a community and meeting those needs and I’m following that call.”
Neidig began his work with the group founded by John Kanzius almost by necessity.
“I got a call by a recruitment firm asking if they could present me as a candidate for the position of the foundations first executive director,” Neidig told the group. “That same day my boss came to my office and told me that because of tough times my job was being eliminated. You think that your life is set and everything is under control — but you learn that life is volatile and God is the one in control.”
Finding hope for cancer had always been a passion of Neidig’s and Kanzius work in the field has provided many with that hope. Kanzius developed a system involving radio waves that has been proven to target cancer cells, and kill them without harming surrounding tissue.
The Foundation was recently featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes” for its innovative approach to fighting cancer through the use of radio waves.
Now the job is to fund further research, hopefully gaining approval for tests on larger animals and eventually humans. The group has targeted pancreatic and liver cancer as priorities in research.
“I’m happy to be able to tell you that there is hope in the fight against cancer,” said Neidig.
Within the last year, the National Cancer Institute has given a $2.5 million, five-year grant to the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation. More money, however, is needed to make the dream of an effective way to fight cancer a reality. Neidig is looking for gifts of any size that can be used to further the work of the Foundation to combat and defeat cancer.
For more information on the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation you can visit the group’s Web site
www.kanziuscancerresearch.com /.
