If shark oil has anti-cancer properties why arent people using it for cancer patients?

My cousin told us about sharks have this oil that makes them the only mammal on the planet that doesnt get cancer.


why arent people using it then? Are they trying to keep the sharks safe or what? becuase if we did use it on cancer patients sharks would be extinct so whats the dealio with that?? are sharks more important than cancer patients?If shark oil has anti-cancer properties why arent people using it for cancer patients?
Sharks do get cancer.


Even if this were true, to suggest it鈥檚 okay that we kill any animal into extinction because we are more important is narrow minded and irresponsible. Every creature is here for a reason. When we disrupt that and we have many times, it throws the entire food chain out of whack and creates bigger problems we did not foresee and often cannot correct.If shark oil has anti-cancer properties why arent people using it for cancer patients?
Your cousin is misinformed; products from sharks - and it is usually sharks' cartilage that is promoted as an anti-cancer treatment rather than oil - are completely ineffective, and an out and out scam.





The supposed fact that sharks don't get cancer, along with the fact that they have a high proportion of cartilage in their bodies led William Lane, to author of Sharks Don't Get Cancer, to decide that shark cartilage could prevent/cure cancer tumours in humans.





But Gary Ostrander and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University have detailed more than 40 published examples of tumours in sharks, some dating back to the 1800s.





Despite the fact that that so far a total of 8 uncontrolled trials and 5 controlled trials have produced no evidence that shark cartilage is effective against cancer (the most recent study, by the American Cancer Institute, found it to be ineffective for lung cancer patients) this pseudoscience is still being promoted by people unscrupulous enough to seek to make money out of desperate and vulnerable people.





The consequences aren't just potentially tragic for cancer patients, who will surely die of untreated cancer if they rely on this discredited remedy, but has serious implications for the shark population too.





No, in my opinion sharks are not more important than cancer patients, but shark populations are being destroyed so that a few people can make large profits from exploiting the desperation and misery of vulnerable people by taking their cash for a totally ineffective treatment.





http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/c鈥?/a>





http://www.nautilusproductions.com/sandt鈥?/a>
well sharks and humans are different. Also, even if shark oil has anti-cancer properties it doesn't cure cancer, so taking it while you have cancer won't cure it but it can suppsedly prevent it or maybe delay the onset. Cancer is not a single type of disease which is why there are so many treatments and options for it.
Sharks can and do get cancer. They may be less suseptible, but they are not immune. If you want to take fish oil, take salmon or krill. I'd rather not put fish oil in my mouth, so I use flax seed oil pills that have omegas, ala, and lignans.
Sharks get cancer. No part of sharks is ';anti-cancer.'; It's bs.
Shark oil has no anti-cancer value. Get your science right before posting such nonsense.