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Sharks Don't Get Cancer: How Shark Cartilage Could Save Your Life

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Sharks do get Cancer. The use of Shark Cartilage as a cure for cancer is unfounded and the collection of Shark Cartilage is jeopardizing the ecosystem and hopes and finances of cancer patients. Please read the research about Shark Cartilage from George Washington University and John Hopkins University, both universities are very well know for their contributions to medical health.

Dr. Lane wrote this book so he could sell his shark cartilage. He wrote this book to sell a product that does not work. Sharks do get cancer, but incidences of cancer are much lower than in humans. The shark immune system may be better adapted to combat cancer. That does not justify grinding up shark cartilage and selling it. Dr. Lane's company sells the stuff for $130 a pound. I would reccomend reading "The Shark Chronicles" by John A. Musick. The book does a great job of describing this awe inspiring creatures.

Quit buying this junk that pseudoscientists are selling to make a quick buck.

Sharks do get cancer.

A scientific study done by researchers at the Mayo Clinc showed not only that this stuff doesn't work, but "toxicity related to shark cartilage resulted in significant trial drop out after one month."

Sharks don't get heartburn, athlete's foot or jock itch. So what?

This book is about bad science at its worst.

Amazon, please remove this product now. Dr. Lane is (actually was, he died this year) just a shill trying to sell a product that his company Lane Labs makes.

The claims that shark cartilage has any medical benefit have been completely disproved many times now. And in fact, the product may do more harm than good because of possibly high mercury content. The FDA has banned Lane Labs from selling shark cartilage and two other questionable cancer products ([...] and [...]) and ordered them to pay restition to anyone who purchased these products as well as a $1 million fine.

You can get the true facts on the myths about shark cartilage products here [...].

This entire line of prodcuts is based on claims that sharks don't get cancer which is completely untrue. Sharks do get cancer ([...]) yet a study conducted in 2004 did indeed find cancer in sharks and tumors were even found in chark cartilage.

And yet, these products are still being marketed and sold to the unsuspecting public and they do nothing but give false hope to the consumers and line the pockets of the manufacturers.

Mankind (a misnomer if ever there was one) kills over 73 million Sharks per year mostly for the Shark Fin soup in China and other Asian markets. We don't need another product that further helps to drive these essential predators of the oceans to excition.

We kill the sharks, we kill the oceans. We kill the oceans, we kill ourselves. It's that simple.

Sharks do get cancer it is a fact. This book is a lie.
Don't let this book fool you into thinking you cant get cancer just because you eat a murdered shark fin, millions of sharks are slaughtered for their fins for no reason every year, it is screwing up our Eco system.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

Sharks don't get heartburn, athlete's foot or jock itch. So what?

This book is about bad science at its worst.

Sharks do get cancer. But, let's pretend like they didn't. How would grinding up their skeletal structure and eating it prevent you from getting it? Total bunk! Also, sharks DO rest and sleep. Nurse sharks spend most of their day lolli-gagging on the substrate. This book is best read to a bunch of wide-eyed children sitting cross-legged on the floor, much like Alice in Wonderland or The Velvetine Rabbit. Although, it's not quite as believable as those stories. These two hucksters are ALMOST as sinister as Kevin Trudeau. Now THERE'S a quack!

Some people approach this topic, and the author, with a great deal of aggression but "lead with their chins" in expressing their discontent without having read the material.

First, Dr. Lane (PhD not MD) explains that medical treatment may well be necessary, and he does not advise against it. He does see nutritionally-based therapy as adjunct therapy, although, for some brave souls, or some Stage IV souls (end-of-the-line medically) nutritional therapy may be their lifeline back to health.

Second, he has a PhD in marine biology and well knows that some sharks do get cancer, AS HE EXPLAINS in the opening pages. The types are limited, the incidence quite rare. Title for effect!

Third, this approach is not his idea, as he explains. The anti-vascular factor(s) in cartilage inhibit, or even reverse, neovascularization (vein and artery infrastructure)necessary for tumor growth. Dr. Judah Folkmann of Harvard has been working on this for over 30 years, searching for the active ingredient. In the interim, Dr. Lane suggests using the part of the shark they have been throwing away! It must be processed correctly; it should not be contaminated or deactivated by processing; it must not be "cut" or reduced by additives so the proper dosage can be delivered.

Fourth, shark cartilage is for tumor-based cancers, not blood-based cancers (for further info please see his Immune Power book and MGN-3 data). This is not a cure-all, but for those cancers, such as brain cancer, which do not yield to chemotherapy, where surgery is a problem, where radiation may also do more harm than good...there is still hope.

You actually have to read the book to learn what anecdotal evidence there is. Anecdotal (stories from patients) evidence is not accepted as science in some circles. NIH trials are on-going at this time. In the meantime, I KNOW people who got benefit from Dr. Lane's company's shark cartilage. ("Benefin") Some other products by other suppliers have been shown to be compromised. He explains why. Being alive and well when you were expected to be dead and gone does not need supporting data, in my opinion. What would it take to convince you?

Scientific studies have been unable to provide any compelling evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of shark cartilage as a therapy for either curing or preventing cancer.

Yet because of the disinformation presented in books like this, cartilage, regardless of the facts, has become a staple among the myriad of phony miracle cancer cures that sick, desperate, and despairing cancer sufferers may be all too willing to try in the impossible hope that it will help them. Unfortunately, shark cartilage's efficacy as a treatment is rooted solely in the realm of pseudoscience and in the claims of snake oil salesmen like William Lane who sell it.

Even if sharks do have a natural immunity to cancer - a central premise of the book that has been shown to be false - who is to say that grinding them up and eating them would convey any benefit? Does eating poultry help us fly?

For those who are suffering from cancer, staking the money that it costs to purchase and ship this book doesn't seem to be any smarter than staking one's life on its claims by forgoing chemotherapy treatment for cartilage as a review below describes. Who wrote that review anyway? William Lane?