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A new study may blunt the appeal of shark cartilage, a popular folk remedy for cancer. Scientists reported last week that not only do sharks get cancer, but they even get cartilage cancer.
Sharks do have a low cancer incidence, researchers say. This fact, together with 1983 research revealing a shark cartilage protein that inhibits tumor-- promoting blood vessels, has been parlayed by alternative medicine entrepreneurs into a lucrative business selling...