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Shark News 12: November 1998
Shark Cartilage and Cancer
Journal of Clinical Oncology, November 1998, contains the results of a three-month study of shark cartilage conducted by the independent Cancer Treatment Research Foundation (Arlington Heights, Illinois) on terminally ill cancer patients. The team of investigators concluded that shark cartilage did nothing to slow their disease or to improve their quality of life.

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