One night Mary Ann Kanzius awoke to a horrendous clamor coming from downstairs, upon investigation she found her husband John sitting on the kitchen floor cutting up her good aluminum pie pans with a pair of shears. When asked why he was wiring the pans to his ham radio, he told her to go back to bed. So off she went know that John wasn't kind of person to quit until he was satisfied, but what she didn't know is that John was developing a way to use radio waves to kill the cancer he'd recently been diagnosed with and his midnight tinkering may soon give hope to the 1.4 million Americans diagnosed with cancer every year according to the 2006 American Cancer Society facts and figures. For John Kanzius inadvertently refined a current cancer treatment called radio frequency ablation, he made it more effective and less invasive. To understand how this came to be, we will explore first the current procedure, second, John's new approach and finally the implications of this new hope for treating cancer.