Shark Cartilage No Proven Cancer Cure

Although shark cartilage products remain widely available to the public, there’s no scientific evidence to show they cure cancer, as advocates claim.That’s the conclusion of a paper in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research, in which Johns Hopkins University researchers highlight the “falsehoods” that have led some people to believe that crude shark cartilage extracts may be an effective, alternative cancer treatment.

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