# OnCo record shark-cartilage (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/shark-cartilage/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "shark-cartilage" ;
  schema:name "Shark cartilage (AE-941, Neovastat)"@en ;
  schema:description "The idea that sharks do not get cancer (they do) launched a supplement industry. Two randomised trials, including a large phase 3 in lung cancer, found that shark cartilage extract does nothing for survival, and the trade contributed to shark population declines."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/shark-cartilage/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_cartilage> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq179>, <https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/cartilage-pdq> ;
  onco:status "negative" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:no-benefit" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00005838/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00026117/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nct00022282/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-negative-results/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-lu-j-natl-cancer-inst/> .