Sharks Don't Get Cancer

Sharks Don't Get Cancer: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life
AuthorI. William Lane, Linda Comac
PublisherAvery Publishing
Publication date
1992

Sharks Don't Get Cancer (subtitle: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life) is a 1992 book written by I. William Lane and Linda Comac and published by Avery Publishing. Despite its title, the book does not claim that sharks never get cancer, only that they rarely do so, a fact which has been known since the first malignancy was found in a shark specimen in 1908.[1] Lane and Comac further claimed that this was because shark cartilage contained cancer-fighting elements, and so that powdered shark cartilage is an effective treatment for cancer and numerous other conditions.[2][3] However, there is no scientific evidence that shark cartilage is useful in treating or preventing cancer or any other disease.[4][5] In 1996, Lane co-authored another book on the same subject, entitled Sharks Still Don't Get Cancer.[6]

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  2. ^ Finkelstein, J. B. (1 November 2005). "Sharks Do Get Cancer: Few Surprises in Cartilage Research". JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 97 (21): 1562–1563. doi:10.1093/jnci/dji392. PMID 16264172.
  3. ^ Burling, Stacey (14 June 1993). "Shark Cartilage: Can It Reverse Cancer?". Philly.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. ^ Ostrander GK; Cheng KC; Wolf JC; Wolfe MJ (December 2004). "Shark cartilage, cancer and the growing threat of pseudoscience". Cancer Res. 64 (23): 8485–91. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-04-2260. PMID 15574750.
  5. ^ "Shark Cartilage". American Cancer Society. November 1, 2008.
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